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"Strong high pressure continues to produce anomalous warmth and air quality issues in the Pacific Northwest," the NWS noted on Tuesday night.īy the numbers: Washington's Nakia Creek Fire, near Camas, east of Vancouver, which prompted Sunday's evacuation orders, is one of 71 large fires in the U.S., according to the NIFC's latest data.Record high temperatures, dry weather, wildfire concerns and air quality issues have plagued much of the Pacific Northwest this past week, according to the National Weather Service.Photo: National Weather Service Seattle/ Twitter

faces "above normal temperatures and minimum relative humidity," per the National Inter Agency Fire Center. The big picture: There's an unusually high number of wildfires burning in the Pacific Northwest, Intermountain West and Canada as much of the northwestern contiguous U.S. Temperatures are expected to remain milder than average through midweek, and by late this week, much cooler and rainy fall weather is forecast to arrive in the Pacific Northwest. The strong easterly winds that dried out vegetation and yielded extreme fire behavior this weekend have died down.Slightly cooler, more humid air is present in western Washington in particular, helping firefighters to battle the flames. Thought bubble, via Axios' Andrew Freedman: The most dangerous wildfire weather conditions, which helped propel several large blazes in Washington state this weekend, have begun to shift. Evacuation zones shrank further as "cooler temperatures and high relative humidity aided firefighters," per Inciweb. The latest: By Tuesday night, the Nakia Creek Fire was burning across nearly 1,800 acres and was 5% contained, according to Inciweb, an interagency website that tracks wildfires. Evacuation orders remained for thousands in southwest Washington state on Tuesday due to a wind-driven wildfire in southwest Washington state that exploded to 2,000 acres over the weekend before diminishing slightly.