BEU Fire Risk & Weather Forecast

Executive Summary

Fire risk

• The potential for large fire remains moderate as a cooling trend begins today and lasts through the end of the week.
• Unit wide, average simulated fire size is 190 acres.
• Largest simulated fires occur:
  • Batt 1; Ventana and Silver Peak Wilderness.
  • Batt 3; Arroyo Seco, Metz Rd, Pinnacles, Stonewall Canyon, Hwy 198
  • Batt 4; Williams Hill, FHL, San Ardo, Bradley, Parkfield.
  • Batt 5 & 6; Pinnacles, Panoche, Quien Sabe Valley, San Benito Mountain.
• Largest simulated fires occur:
  • 1500 - 1800

Weather

• Partly to mostly sunny days and mostly cloudy or clear nights are forecast over the next two days.
  • Expect some morning patchy fog in coastal areas
• Winds will be northwest, west or southwest at 5 - 10mph, increasing in the afternoons.
  • Wind direction will be south or southeast for the Santa Lucia Range.
  • Expect gusts up to 30mph at high elevations of the Santa Lucia, Diablo, and Gabilan Ranges
• Temperatures (daytime maximum)
  • Coastal: low-60s to mid-70s
  • Inland: mid-70s to upper-80s
• RH (daytime minimum)
  • Coastal: 60 – 85%
  • Inland: 25 – 45%

Fire Size Potential

Maps below do not consider any suppression efforts. Areas with no fire size potential (colored squares) are less likely to ignite due to high fuel moisture or non-burnable fuel types.

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Weather Data

RAWS Data