EM Morning Brief

The first widespread heat wave of the summer builds across the Intermountain West and Plains as dangerous heat holds over the Southwest and Southeast, and severe storms bring flash flooding from the central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic. The nation stays at Preparedness Level 4 with 37 large fires burning, led by Utah’s Babylon Fire at more than 102,000 acres. Colorado moves Aspen Acres evacuation zo...

The nation holds at Preparedness Level 4 with 37 uncontained large fires as Utah’s Babylon Fire crosses 100,000 acres and Colorado’s governor declares a disaster emergency for the fast growing Ferris Fire. The new Claremont Fire triggers Level 3 evacuations in the Boise foothills, FEMA announces more than $584 million in resilience and recovery funding, and CISA flags three actively exploited vuln...

The nation holds at Preparedness Level 4 with 36 large fires burning across the West. Utah’s Babylon Fire passes 100,000 acres with zero containment as San Juan County zones move to SET status, Colorado’s Aspen Acres Fire destroys 266 structures with more than 11,000 people evacuated, and Washington’s Chelan Hills Fire reaches 20 percent containment. In the Pacific, the CNMI declares the all clear...

Recovery operations begin across Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands after Category 5 Super Typhoon Bavi passes directly over Rota, leaving island-wide power outages, boil water notices, and roughly 500 residents in shelters as FEMA personnel support the response. The nation holds at Preparedness Level 4 with 35 large fires burning: Colorado’s Aspen Acres fire destroys 263 homes, Utah’s Cottonwo...

Today’s brief covers the national wildfire picture at Preparedness Level 4, with 41 uncontained large fires and evacuations in three geographic areas. Colorado’s Aspen Acres Fire, now the nation’s top-priority incident, reaches nearly 87,000 acres as damage assessment teams begin work, while the Willow Fire forces new evacuations near Leadville. Utah’s Babylon Fire burns past 87,000 acres with no...

Typhoon Bavi intensifies toward Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, prompting typhoon watches, Condition of Readiness 3, and Coast Guard port restrictions days after the Sinlaku disaster declaration. Extreme heat covers 24 states and Washington D.C. into the July 4 holiday as DOE grid orders for PJM run through tonight, Con Edison cuts voltage in New York, and cities from Baltimore to Philadelp...

Today’s brief covers overnight growth on Utah’s Cottonwood and Babylon fires and Colorado’s Aspen Acres Fire as the nation holds at Preparedness Level 4 with 51 uncontained large fires, federal grid emergency orders for PJM as demand today could break the all time record during widespread extreme heat, a CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities addition for Microsoft SharePoint with a July 4 remediati...

A record-challenging heat wave drives a federal power emergency for the PJM grid across 13 states, while wildfires push the national preparedness level to 4 with large, fast-moving fires forcing evacuations in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, and Alaska. Kentucky continues recovery after deadly flash flooding, and precautionary boil-water advisories affect communities in Missouri and S...

Today’s brief leads with wildfire: NIFC raises the national preparedness level to PL 4 as 52 large fires burn across nine states, and the fire community mourns three federal firefighters killed in a burnover on the Knowles Fire along the Colorado-Utah border. A long-duration, dangerous heat wave is building across the central and eastern United States ahead of the July 4 weekend, with Connecticut...

Today’s brief leads with the Western wildfire crisis, where the National Interagency Fire Center holds the nation at Preparedness Level 3 amid roughly 45 uncontained large fires and extremely critical fire weather across the southern Intermountain West. Utah carries the heaviest load, with the Cottonwood Fire now the nation’s largest active wildfire near 92,000 acres, the Iron and Cherry fires dri...

Today’s brief leads with escalating Western wildfire activity: Utah’s Cottonwood Fire is the nation’s largest at roughly 71,000 acres with zero containment and active evacuations, the Iron Fire keeps Eureka under a Level 3 order, and the Storm Prediction Center posts an Extremely Critical fire weather outlook for parts of Utah, Arizona, and Nevada. We also cover flash flooding and flood watches fr...

Today’s brief leads with the Western wildfire siege, with NIFC holding the country at Preparedness Level 3 amid Red Flag and critical fire weather across the Intermountain West, the Four Corners, and Interior Alaska, plus building heat across the South and West. In Utah, the Iron Fire near Eureka tops 37,000 acres with mandatory evacuations still in place. In New Mexico, the McCauley Springs Fire...

Western wildfires lead today’s brief, with Utah’s Iron Fire near Eureka and the Cottonwood Fire near Beaver each pushing past 30,000 acres and forcing evacuations, while NIFC keeps the country at Preparedness Level 3 with 31 uncontained large fires. In Arizona, the Pocket Fire north of Sedona prompts a downgrade of Oak Creek Canyon from GO to SET, and Extreme Heat Warnings push toward 114 degrees....

Western wildfires dominate today’s brief as NIFC holds the nation at Preparedness Level 3 with 31 uncontained large fires. Utah’s Iron Fire forces a full evacuation of Eureka, Arizona’s Pocket Fire keeps Oak Creek Canyon under orders, and Alaska’s Starry Fire prompts new evacuations. We also cover dangerous Western heat and Mid-Atlantic flash-flood risk, Los Angeles emergency declarations over the...

Today’s brief leads with the Western heat-and-fire surge: Utah’s human-caused Iron Fire has grown to nearly 22,000 acres and forced the full evacuation of Eureka, while Arizona’s Pocket Fire keeps Oak Creek Canyon under evacuation orders north of Sedona. The National Interagency Fire Center holds the country at Preparedness Level 3 with 28 uncontained large fires, and active blazes persist across...

Today’s brief leads with the remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur, which have stalled over the Deep South and triggered a rare Level 4 High Risk for excessive rainfall from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle. Louisiana has declared a statewide emergency with flood rescues underway in Avoyelles Parish, Mississippi faced a dam scare near Carriere that emergency officials later resolved, and dangerous h...

Today’s brief leads with post-tropical cyclone Arthur, which is pushing life-threatening flash flooding across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle, with high-water rescues already underway in St. Tammany Parish. A separate severe-weather outbreak spawned tornadoes and damaging winds across Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, while weather-driven FAA ground stops sna...

Today’s brief leads with Potential Tropical Cyclone One, expected to become Tropical Storm Arthur, bringing a Tropical Storm Warning and life-threatening flash flooding to the upper Texas and Louisiana coasts, with nearly 26 million people under flood watches from south Texas to Mississippi. We cover elevated national wildfire activity, including Nebraska’s South Fork Fire near Fort Robinson, and...

Today’s brief leads with a multi-day Gulf Coast flooding emergency: the National Hurricane Center is tracking Invest 90L for possible development into the season’s first named storm, while the Weather Prediction Center keeps a Level 3 of 4 flood risk over Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi through Thursday. Texas Governor Abbott has activated additional state emergency resources and 24-hour State O...

Life-threatening flash flooding hits Central Texas as the National Weather Service issues multiple flash flood warnings for the Austin area, with water rescues reported in South Austin and on Interstate 35 south of Waco. The flood threat is set to persist and shift eastward, with heavy rain likely across eastern and southern Texas and Louisiana this week and the National Hurricane Center monitorin...

Today’s brief covers the South Fork Fire in Nebraska’s Pine Ridge, where extreme fire behavior forces the evacuation of Fort Robinson State Park and puts Crawford on notice, plus Thursday evening’s tornado outbreak across northern Illinois and northwest Indiana that leaves more than 240,000 ComEd and NIPSCO customers without power. Texas activates state emergency response resources ahead of a week...

A multi-day severe weather outbreak dominates today’s brief, with an Enhanced Risk across the Upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes, more than a dozen tornado reports, and roughly 390,000 customers without power from Illinois to Michigan. We also cover CISA’s latest Known Exploited Vulnerabilities additions, the National Hurricane Center’s watch on the Bay of Campeche, the national wildfire pic...

Today’s brief covers a continuing severe weather and flash flooding threat across the northern and central Plains, a Tornado Watch reaching from North Dakota into northwestern Minnesota, and building hazardous heat from the Mid-Atlantic into the Northeast with a New York City Heat Advisory. We track the national fire picture at Preparedness Level 2 with 11 uncontained large fires, Red Flag Warning...

A slow-moving storm system drove roughly two dozen flash floods and water rescues across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma on June 8, with flood watches stretching into the Tennessee Valley and severe storms threatening the central Plains. Heat advisories take hold June 9 across parts of the Mid-South as a broader heat wave builds. Red Flag Warnings cover southern Nevada, northwestern Arizo...

Today’s brief leads with a magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the southern Philippines that prompted a Pacific Tsunami Warning Center advisory for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, with no threat to Hawaii or the U.S. West Coast. We cover national wildfire operations at Preparedness Level 2, including active fires threatening structures and infrastructure in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, N...