The Predictive Services section at the National Interagency Fire Center has issued their Wildland Fire Potential Outlook for March through June. The data represents the cumulative forecasts of the eleven Geographic Area Predictive Services Units and the National Predictive Services Unit.
If their predictions are accurate, fire potential should be increasing in the upper midwest and mid-south, it is expected to be normal in the west, and higher than normal in Alaska and Hawaii.
Here are the highlights from their outlook.
March
- Above normal significant wildland fire potential exists across much of the Hawaiian Islands.
- Below normal significant wildland fire potential is expected for the Southeast from Texas to the mid-Atlantic as well as Puerto Rico.
- Normal significant wildland fire potential elsewhere.
April
- Above normal significant wildland fire potential will develop throughout the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes.
- Above normal significant wildland fire potential will continue across much of Hawaii.
- Below normal significant wildland fire potential will continue along the coastal plain of the Southeast and through central Texas as well as Puerto Rico.
May through June
- Above normal significant wildland fire potential will develop across portions of Southern California. Above normal significant wildland fire potential will continue across much of Hawaii.
- Above normal significant wildland fire potential will reduce to normal across the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes.
- Below normal significant wildland fire potential will develop across the Southwest and continue on the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast coasts.
