What a frustrating map. In California it shows dozens of fires that are “Acres burned” .1 or less, no containment information, fires that obviously don’t exist any more (I found ones from mid June, .1 acres, no containment info).
This map seems more useful. It’s on the same arcgis site, so I don’t know why this one is more accurate than the other (if it is). linky
You are right! I took a closer look and found some old, small fires that I would think are out (one discovered 4/17 and only .2 acres). I wonder why it is including that data? It appears they are pulling the data from the same source since the large active fires seem to have the same details.
This map is also useful in it’s way. You have to click on the Layers icon at top right and choose everything under ‘fires’ except “historical fires”, then you get the active perimeter of the big fires that you can zoom into. “Historical fires” will give you what areas have been burned in recent years, to what time frame I have no idea.
We’ve had several nice rains which helped the fire situation. Of course, the flash floods aren’t a lot of fun either, but at least they are fast.
O’Connell Fire
Lime Fire
Elements Fire
The fire was burning north of Kingman in the Cerbat Mountains, 6 miles northeast of Chloride.
Tiger Fire
The fire was burning approximately 11 miles east of Crown King.
Middle Fire
The fire is burning 3 miles west of the Verde River and 3 miles northeast of Red Creek Ranch. On July 11, the fire was active in the head of Squaw Creek and above the Verde River.
Bottom Fire
The fire was burning approximately 7 miles west of Bylas. A containment date of July 12 was given on July 10.
Snake Fire
The fire was burning 7 miles west of Clints Well on the northern edge of West Clear Creek in Coconino National Forest.
Alamo Fire
The fire was burning 10 miles west of Nogales between Mexico, the Coronado National Forest and the Nogales Ranger District.
Rafael Fire
The fire was 4 miles north of Perkinsville, east of Highway 89. The fire was burning in Prescott National Forest, east of the Rock Butte Fires.
Rock Butte Fires
A thunderstorm ignited five fires north of Paulden and west of Highway 89, including Red Hat Fire, Limestone Fire, Spring Fire, Rock Butte Fire and Silent Fire. Red Hat Fire, Limestone Fire and Silent Fire have been 100% contained.
Backbone Fire
The Backbone fire was burning 2 miles west of Pine, south of Highway 260.
Bear Fire
The Bear Fire was burning 25 miles north of Clifton in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, near U.S. Highway 191.
Pinnacle Fire
The Pinnacle Fire was burning in Coronado National Forest, approximately 13 miles south of Bylas.
Previous fires with full containment
Oregon’s Bootleg Fire is now too dangerous to fight; crews were pulled yesterday. Also, it is producing “fire clouds” and “fire tornados”.
So what will stop it? Natural barriers? Which ones? Or rain? Forecast as to coming…?
Gotta remove the heat source underneath all that air is the only way to get rid of 'em.
Sad and terrifying. I haven’t spent a lot of time in Oregon, but always thought it was beautiful.
It’s prolly still beautiful but in a fire-themed way now. You can sit and watch the light play as the flames on the ground and the heat distortion paint the flame cloud while fire tornados dance underneath.
Morbid* but true. I’ve sat on our porch at night watching the glowing embers of the fire a couple of miles away. Its mesmerizing.
*probably not the right word, but my mental thesaurus is tired.
This headline says a lot: Unstable weather will continue to fuel huge Oregon blaze.
Check out the NOAA satellite view as the Bootleg fire in Oregon blew up a few days ago.
There’s a new fire just south of Lake Tahoe:
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TroutMan, that satellite footage is incredible! Unreal how huge that fire is and how clearly you can see the fire in the fire cloud!
Real threat of dry lightning over much of CA Sunday and Monday. It’s apparently a very hard phenomenon to accurately predict, so with luck it will be a dud event most everywhere. But definitely something to watch for in most of the state except the far northwest this weekend.
Flagstaff had flooding yesterday (90 second video):
There were 70 active large fires and complexes of multiple fires that have burned nearly 1,659 square miles (4,297 square kilometers) in the U.S., the National Interagency Fire Center said. The U.S. Forest Service said at least 16 major fires were burning in the Pacific Northwest alone.
Well, if we could find a way to transfer the fabulous amount of flood waters in western Europe to Lake Mead, we’d be all set. 
I agree, @Jasmine. There are parts of the eastern US with flooding problems along with Europe. Meanwhile, here in the western US, we very much need their excess water. There has GOT to be some way to redistribute it.