Intermountain Region

Current Conditions

Weather | Fires & Emergencies
Water | Avalanches | Fall Colors | Wildflowers

Fall Colors

The Intermountain Region experiences wonderful autumn colors. The Fall Colors web page is updated weekly during the fall season. To gain an idea of places to view these fabulous colors, visit the Fall Colors web site. Fall colors is truly an art of nature.

Weather

Current weather conditions from the National Weather Service are updated continually. Use the menu below to find weather conditions captured by Intellicast.com for a specific forest or grassland. The weather reports are for the Forest Supervisor office locations. Enter a city and state in either weather report web site for a more specific location. Weather conditions for the Regional Office located in Ogden, Utah.

Water

USGS posts updated water information regarding water droughts, stream flow maps, and flood and high flow information, as well as a number of other items.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides national water and climate information. Here is where you can find water supply, snow pack, precipitation, and reservoir reports, as well as stream flow forecasts and data.

Fires and Emergencies

The National Interagency Center posts an updated copy of the Situation Report on a daily basis. This is a national report that captures specific information regarding large fires, an outlook for the day, the total number of fires and acreage burned, as well as the current number of committed resources.

Utah Fire Info - www.utahfireinfo.gov
Idaho Fire Info - www.fs.fed.us/idahofires/
Nevada Fire Info - Sierra Front Interagency Dispatch Center
Nevada Fire Info - Western Great Basin Coordination Center
Nevada - Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF)
California - California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF)
Wyoming - www.tetonfires.com
Incidents throughout the U.S. inciweb.org

Weather, Smoke, and Fire images are pulled several times a day from an Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite. Archived images are filed for research and comparison purposes.

Wildflowers

The Forest Service National Celebrating Wildflowers web site has officially being launched. This new web site is the gateway to an enormous amount of botanical information provided by our partners. A number of other modules such as rare plants, native plant materials, ethnobotany, lichens, ferns and other botany subject areas are currently under development and will posted to the web site as they become finalized. Go to the Intermountain Region portion of the web site.

US Forest Service - Intermountain Region
Last Modified: Monday, 28 September 2009 at 10:30:21 EDT