Eastern Great Basin Fuel Status
Zone ID477 History
| Date | Critical Status |
Critical Below (feet) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/30/09 10:41:47 | Yes | 5,500 | cheatgrass and natives have sufficiently dried to warrant critical status. Most fine fuels above 5500 feet are still not fully cured and any fuel model G above 5500 will likely not produce much in the way of fire intensity due to above average live fuel moistures and 1000 hr. fuels running 15-20+% |
| 08/13/09 15:27:08 | No | 2+ day rain event was widespread over most of zone. 1/2 inch-.9 inches at most RAWS stations. Slow soaking rain. Still waiting to see what'll dry out besides cheatgrass. | |
| 08/01/09 11:38:37 | No | We are now in a more typical drying pattern. Cheatgrass at nearly all elevations are fully cured, natives are slowly drying out too. Live conifer and sage are running a bit above normal. Expect the next couple weeks to really make the turn regarding fire potential. | |
| 07/07/09 14:28:37 | No | cheatgrass below 6000' fully cured, natives below 6000' still plenty green. Above 6000' looking very green still. | |
| 06/20/09 09:18:48 | No | wet....Going on better than 3 weeks of wet, cool weather. Conifer breaking bud below 6000 feet. Wettest June on record and it's not over yet. Grass/forb crop is growing well but expect it to really shoot once we warm up a bit. | |
| 06/09/09 10:20:28 | No | Lots of rain the past week or so. Very green. Conifers still developing buds. Sagebrush is fully greened up at 6200 feet.....300+% | |
| 05/28/09 15:29:53 | No | Grass below 7000' is a couple weeks into greenup, above 7000' it depends on aspect and snow. Sagebrush at North Fork has not jumped in live fuel moistures yet. Conifers have early bud development. | |
| 05/08/09 15:17:21 | No | cool wet spring. Making up for marginal winter. Just starting to green up RAWS stations. Fleck Summit on May 1st or there abouts, Ohio Gulch a week or two ago. North fork by the 15th and Horton Peak.........to soon to tell when things in the Sawtooth Valley will melt. | |
| 09/08/08 16:33:37 | Yes | All | |
| 08/14/08 12:29:06 | Yes | 8,000 | NFDRS indices are showing us in the "very high" to "extreme" range for most of the northern sawtooth forest. Fines are cured or nearly cured upto about 8000' elevation. |
| 08/01/08 11:18:09 | Yes | 9,000 | NFDRS indices are showing us in the "very high" to "extreme" range for most of the northern sawtooth forest. Fines are cured or nearly cured upto about 9000' elevation. |
| 07/09/08 22:00:44 | Yes | 6,000 | Fuels have dried sufficiently in lower elevations, especially on south facing slopes, to warrant "critically dry" status in those areas. Upper elevation (above 6000') fine fuels are still quite green, although they are starting to show signs of curing. bud break on conifer species was pretty late this year due to cool spring. Bud break above 7000' occured during about the third to fourth week of June.....a full 30+ days later than last year. |
| 07/02/08 12:33:09 | No | fines..mainly cheatgrass, cured below 5000' still plenty green above their. Expect some single tree fires if we get some lightning. | |
| 06/20/08 06:39:20 | No | Still Snow above 8500', Green low but starting to cure with temps near 90 | |
| 06/20/08 06:39:00 | Yes | Still Snow above 8500', Green low but starting to cure with temps near 90 | |
| 06/20/08 06:38:32 | Still Snow above 8500', Green low but starting to cure with temps near 90 | ||
| 06/18/08 08:09:01 | Still Snow above 8500', Green low but starting to cure with temps near 90 |