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Fire Weather

The Predictive Services (Fire Weather) resource page brings together all data needed to make sound decisions and long range plans to ensure the adequate allocation of resources needed for pre-suppression and suppression of wildfires.

Predictive Fire Services

1000 Hour/Dead Fuel Moisture

United States – Current Large Incidents

Fire Danger Rating

Fire Danger Rating (USDA Forest Service – Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS)

Keetch-Byram Drought Index 

Mississippi RAWS

Mississippi Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS) and NOAA Weather Stations Weather Summary for Mississippi

Southeastern United States

Southern Area Coordination Center (SACC)

National Weather Service

NWS Area Fire Weather Forecasts

Memphis, TN                               Covering the following counties in north Mississippi:
Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw,  Coahoma, Desoto, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Marshall, Monroe, Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tunica, Tippah, Tishomingo, Yalobusha, Union
Jackson, MSCovering the following counties in central Mississippi:
Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke, Clay, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, Grenada, Hinds, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jasper, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Kemper, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Leake, Leflore, Lincoln, Lowndes, Madison, Marion, Montgomery, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Rankin Scott, Sharkey, Simpson, Smith, Sunflower, Warren, Washington, Webster, Winston, Yazoo
New Orleans, LACovering the following counties in Southwest Mississippi:
Amite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike, Walthall, Wilkinson
Mobile, ALCovering the following counties in Southeast Mississippi:
George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne