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December 22, 2006

Wildland fire activity continues to be light at the end of 2006 with 274 new fires reported. Four new large fires were reported: three in Kentucky and one in Arizona. These large fires were also contained the week of Dec. 22.

Weather Discussion: Dry conditions and moderate to strong northeast winds are predicted for today through Saturday in southern California into the lower Colorado River Valley. Winds are expected to decrease on Sunday. Offshore winds will return in California by mid next week.


Weekly Statistics 12/22/06
Number of new large fires 4
States currently reporting large fires:
Number of active large fires 0


Acres from active fires 0
Number of Wildland Fire Use (WFU) fires 0
Number of Wildland Fire Use (WFU) acres 0
Fires contained the week of 12/22/06 4
Year-to-date large fires contained 1,237

Year-to-date Statistics
2006 (1/1/06 - 12/22/06) Fires: 96,147 Acres: 9,830,521
2005 (1/1/05 - 12/22/05) Fires: 65,440 Acres: 8,640,504
2004 (1/1/04 - 12/22/04) Fires: 65,510 Acres: 8,087,515
2003 (1/1/03 - 12/22/03) Fires: 63,269 Acres: 3,959,223
2002 (1/1/02 - 12/22/02) Fires: 73,423 Acres: 7,182,979
2001 (1/1/01 - 12/22/01) Fires: 83,965 Acres: 3,569,673
2000 (1/1/00 - 12/22/00) Fires: 92,437 Acres: 7,395,219
5-Year Average
2002 - 2006 Fires: 76,019 Acres: 7,530,417

Source: National Interagency Coordination Center
Current Wildland Fires
Arizona Number of fires: 0 Acres: 0 New fires: 1 Fires contained: 1
NEW Curly Horse (Tucson District, Arizona State): The fire was contained at 1,562 acres.
Kentucky Number of fires: 0 Acres: 0 New fires: 3 Fires contained: 3
NEW Aones Creek (Kentucky Department of Forestry): The fire was contained at 518 acres.
NEW Jacks Branch #3 (Kentucky Department of Forestry): The fire was contained at 175 acres.
NEW Seminary (Daniel Boone National Forest): The fire was contained at 110 acres.

This report will be updated on Fridays while fire activity continues.
For another source of daily national wildland fire information see the National Interagency Coordination Center.