fema daily headsUp for Thursday Aug 27 2026

 National Current Ops / Monitoring – August 26-27, 2026

New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops:
•  No new significant incidents / operations

Hazard Monitoring:
•  Severe Thunderstorms – Central Plains, Mid-Atlantic to Northeast
•  Heavy Rain / Flash Flooding – Lower Mississippi Valley to Southeastern U.S. and Mid-Atlantic to Northeast
•  Critical Fire Weather – Central Great Basin and Northern Intermountain
•  Tropical Activity
    ○ Atlantic: Disturbance 1: High (90%)
    ○ Eastern and Central Pacific:
      • Tropical Storm Lala
      • Disturbance 1 (EP93): High (90%)
      • Disturbance 2 (EP94): High (90%)
      • Disturbance 3: High (80%)
      • Disturbance 4: Low (20%)

Disaster Declaration Activity:
•  Request: Major Disaster Declaration – CO
•  Request: Major Disaster Declaration – WI

Event Monitoring:
•  No new significant events

(2 final reports on wildfires - (Rowe Creek Complex in OR - 9 homes
destroyed) -  no major changes otherwise  - except that the Wrights
Spring Fire in Klamath County OR shows 1 death)