Track where fires are burning now
Updated May 15, 2022.
Arizona’s wildfire season, which received off to an early begin this year, might be much more catastrophic in 2022 than in earlier years, fireplace officers have mentioned.
Arizona lost over 500,000 acres to wildfires in 2021 and over 900,000 acres in 2020, Gov. Doug Ducey mentioned earlier this year.
Reports have predicted a lot of the Southwest may have an above-normal potential for fires in May and June, although wetter durations between September via December helped decrease fireplace potential for sure areas. In Arizona, although, the danger for vital fireplace potential arrived earlier, starting in March.
Below is a map of fires that are actively burning in Arizona, as compiled by the wildfire monitoring web site InciWeb, operated by the U.S. Forest Service. It can be up to date all through the fireplace season.
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San Rafael Fire
- Location: 22 miles southeast of Patagonia
- Start date: May 7
- Size: 11,620 acres
- Containment: 100%
- Fuels concerned: Short grass and brush
- Cause: Under investigation
- Total personnel: 5
Tunnel Fire
- Location: 14 miles northeast of Flagstaff
- Start date: April 17
- Size: 19,088 acres
- Containment: 95%
- Fuels concerned: Dry grass, brush and scattered pine
- Cause: Under investigation
- Total personnel: 36
Crooks Fire
- Location: 11 miles south of Prescott
- Start date: April 18
- Size: 9,402 acres
- Containment: 96%
- Fuels concerned: Timber, chaparral
- Cause: Undetermined
- Total personnel: 117
2022 fires with or close to full containment
This record doesn’t embrace prescribed burns.
- Locklin Fire: 112 acres in Bisbee, 100% contained as of April 30.
- Presumido Peak Fire: 2,591 acres in Pima County close to the border with Mexico, 100% contained as of April 5.
