National Preparedness Level: 2 (On a scale from 1 to 5)
Northern California PL: 1
Southern California PL: 2
Smaller, local incidents are listed in the Happening Now section.
Current National Situation:
May 7, 2026 – Initial attack was light with 73 fires reported. 2 new large fires reported and 1 large fire contained.
This report will be posted every Friday unless significant activity occurs.
| Nationwide last week | Year to date | 10-yr average |
| Fires: 73 Acres: 542 | Fires: 25,560 Acres: 1,881,436 | Fires: 176,713 Acres: 1,052,600 (2016 – 2025 as of today) |
| California | Year to date | 5-yr average |
| Fires: 938 Acres: 11,067 | Fires: 1,508 Acres: 16,651 |
Regional fires
| Incident Name | State | Lead Agency | Size (acres) | Percent Contained | Estimate of Containment | Personnel | Structures Destroyed |
| Oregon | CA | TNF | 6 | 100% | September 27, 2025 | 40 | 1 |
California fires
| Incident Name | State | Lead Agency | Size (acres) | Percent Contained | Estimate of Containment | Personnel | Structures Destroyed |
| Blue and Log Fires | CA | KNF | 3,713 | 90% | unknown | 88 | 0 |
Out of state fires
Map information using data provided by the National Interagency Fire Center. The data is subject to change.
Weather Outlook
Warm and dry conditions will continue west of the Rockies, with two main areas of focus weather wise throughout the day. Heavy rainfall and thunderstorms will begin across eastern New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana in the morning along the stalled cold front, with scattered thunderstorms developing for a few hours in the afternoon across the San Juans of Colorado and western New Mexico. The front will begin to make progress eastward throughout the day, bringing increased cloud cover, gusty winds, and heavy rain to the southern Gulf states. Conditions remain hot, dry and breezy across central and parts of southern Florida to the south of this cold front. Meanwhile, the Mid Atlantic and Northeast will receive rain and thunderstorms throughout the day as a weaker weather system moves through, bringing some additional light rain behind the front with below normal temperatures. High pressure over the Pacific Northwest shifts slightly eastward into the Northern Rockies, with a weather system approaching the West Coast late in the day developing some isolated showers and thunderstorms across the Cascades. Below normal temperatures and an active pattern continue across Alaska. A moist trade wind pattern is expected across Hawai‘i with scattered to numerous windward showers and isolated leeward showers.