Utah's Cottonwood Fire tops 71,000 acres at zero containment; Extremely Critical fire weather hits Utah, Arizona, and Nevada; CISA adds two actively exploited vulnerabilities

EM Morning Brief · Jun 26, 2026 · 5m · transcript

Today’s brief leads with escalating Western wildfire activity: Utah’s Cottonwood Fire is the nation’s largest at roughly 71,000 acres with zero containment and active evacuations, the Iron Fire keeps Eureka under a Level 3 order, and the Storm Prediction Center posts an Extremely Critical fire weather outlook for parts of Utah, Arizona, and Nevada. We also cover flash flooding and flood watches from Kansas into Missouri and Oklahoma, building dangerous heat across the southern and central U.S., CISA’s addition of two actively exploited vulnerabilities to its catalog, and an FDA Class I recall…