Risk: Tornado Count Remains Below Average, Wildfire Burned Acreage Jumps

Blame the Alaska fires--which pretty much have to die out on their own--for the latter.
First up, a couple tornado charts from NOAA's Storm Prediction Center:
The current tornado count is only in the 23rd percentile:

 

The last few years have seen record low counts:

Plot of the annual running total of U.S. tornadoes. (Click on image for a full resolution version.)   Forest fires on the other hand....As with tornadoes, acreage burned had been bouncing near record lows but then... Each red line is a named fire:

(click to enlarge)

The June 30 Weather.com story is headlined "Alaska Wildfires in June 2015 Have Surpassed June 2004, Which Was a Record Wildfire Year".

Resulting in...
From the National Interagency Wildfire Center:

Year-to-date statistics
2015 (1/1/15 - 7/14/15)	Fires: 31,974	Acres: 5,196,033
2014 (1/1/14 - 7/14/14)	Fires: 29,256	Acres: 1,042,816
2013 (1/1/13 - 7/14/13)	Fires: 24,719	Acres: 2,001,596
2012 (1/1/12 - 7/14/12)	Fires: 32,238	Acres: 3,554,411
2011 (1/1/11 - 7/14/11)	Fires: 40,051	Acres: 5,812,728
2010 (1/1/10 - 7/14/10)	Fires: 33,496	Acres: 1,679,327
2009 (1/1/09 - 7/14/09)	Fires: 51,584	Acres: 2,425,934
2008 (1/1/08 - 7/14/08)	Fires: 48,059	Acres: 3,173,833
2007 (1/1/07 - 7/14/07)	Fires: 51,334	Acres: 2,902,381
2006 (1/1/06 - 7/14/06)	Fires: 63,322	Acres: 4,126,245
2005 (1/1/05 - 7/14/05)	Fires: 33,161	Aces: 3,156,423
Annual average prior 10 years
2005-2014	Fires: 40,722	Acres: 2,987,569

...MUCH MORE

At the moment there are still 22 fires burning in Alaska that have burned a total 1,526,830 acres.