The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad foretold of a day when Allah (God) would chastise America for the evil she has done to Black people and to the darker people of the nations of the Earth.

His student, helper and National Representative, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, has continued warning America to repent lest she faces the Wrath of Allah (God).

“God will take America down in 12 hours by the clock. You have no power with The God I serve.  See if you can stop the tornadoes; they’re coming more and more … .

Rain coming like you’ve never seen it before. All of a sudden a flash flood, and people, you see their cars going down under water,” the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said in a May 2016 interview on The Breakfast Club. 

“You’ve got hail coming out of the sky the size of a baseball; and soon, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, you’ll see them coming out of the sky like blocks of ice. 

You’ve got fire going on North of our border in Canada, 1,600-and-some-odd square miles burning. They’ve never seen a fire like that,” Minister Farrakhan added. “You are dealing with a God and The Forces of Nature … . You can’t stop that.”

Several Western states are either battling wildfires or recovering from them amid dangerous heat, low humidity, gusty winds and ongoing drought. An unusually active wildfire season intensified across states stretching from Washington to Colorado.

Three fires in Spokane, Washington, burned more than 10,000 acres and damaged more than 900 homes and structures. More than 60,000 people were forced to evacuate. 

“This is by far and large the worst one we’ve ever been on,” Steve Moyer, a firefighter with the Moses Lake Fire Department in Washington state, said to Seattle’s NPR station. “I mean, you’re in a neighborhood right now and there isn’t a single house standing.”

“It’s apocalyptic,” he added. Authorities said all three fires were believed to be caused by humans, though only one had been identified as deliberately set.  Aaron Farinacci, 37, was arrested and charged with first-degree arson for deliberately starting one of the Spokane fires.

Even as firefighters from across the country worked to contain the fires, officials warned that another round of hot, windy weather could reignite active fire behavior.

“More dry, windy weather is going to make things harder for our firefighters this weekend. Everyone in Washington needs to be smart and safe. Don’t be the spark that sets off another catastrophe,” Dave Upthegrove, Washington’s Commissioner of Public Lands, said in a social media post.

Oregon was another fire hotspot. Several fires raged simultaneously across the state, leading to evacuations and unhealthy air quality, according to local news outlets. Officials closed one of the state’s highways because of the Grasshopper Fire, which burned more than 43,000 acres and remained at 23% containment on Aug. 7.

Another fire, the Wrights Spring Fire, which started Aug. 5, grew to nearly 9,000 acres by Aug. 7 and remained at 0% containment.

The Big Grass Fire grew into one of the largest wildfires in Oregon’s history. Flames scorched more than 442,000 acres and crossed into Idaho. By Aug. 7 afternoon, the fire was 39% contained. NASA satellite imagery showed widespread smoke stretching across Oregon, Washington and into British Columbia. 

In Utah, the Widemouth 2 Fire became one of the state’s largest fires this fire season. It burned more than 106,000 acres and was 19% contained on Aug. 7.  A firefighting helicopter crashed while working the fire, and the blaze continued growing despite hundreds of firefighters working to suppress it. So far in the 2026 fire season, 794 fires have burned nearly half a million acres in the state.

North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong declared a statewide fire emergency on Aug. 7, as moderate and extreme drought spread across the state amid hot and dry conditions.

“In just a few months we’ve seen ground conditions shift from lush green to tinder dry across large portions of our state, and we need to be prepared for a potentially intense wildfire season this fall,” Gov. Armstrong said.

Northern California’s Gann Fire was another major fire. The fire rapidly spread through dry grass and brush, burning more than 10,000 acres. The fire injured a firefighter and destroyed 18 structures. One person was found dead in a home destroyed by the fire. Residents received evacuation orders and warnings, and schools closed due to the smoke. More than 3,000 personnel were assigned.

Herbert Wayne Smith, 65, was arrested on suspicion of recklessly causing the fire by operating spark-producing equipment without clearing nearby flammable vegetation as required.

Fires expanded near the Pioneer Mountains in Montana, and fire watches were issued for parts of Montana and Wyoming. Though few fires were reported in Wyoming, parts of the state did experience heavy smoke from fires in the Pacific Northwest, reducing visibility and degrading air quality.

Mandatory evacuation orders were issued near Lake City, Colorado, as firefighters battled the Elk Fire.

On Aug. 6, firefighters were actively working to contain 95 large fires across the country, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. More than 30,000 personnel were assigned to incidents nationwide. Up to that point in 2026, firefighters had responded to 45,502 wildfires burning more than 5.6 million acres.

The center predicted that a “hot, dry and unstable air mass” would continue to build across the West. Year-to-date wildfire activity remained above the recent 10-year average for both fire numbers and acres burned, according to the fire center.

Forecasters warned that extreme heat and strong winds will keep much of the West at elevated wildfire risk even as heavy rain and flooding threaten parts of the eastern U.S. Parts of the eastern and central United States have experienced repeated rounds of thunderstorms, including localized flash flooding and heavy rainfall.

These weather events are prophesied to continue.

“God is destroying America by degrees with The Forces of Nature, which you have no power against,” the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan warned in his 2016 message. “The Death Angel is in America as we speak—these natural disasters are going to increase.”

But, he said, there’s a way out for America. “Let the Black man go and give us justice, and these things that are whipping you today will start diminishing, and you will get a longer period of time,” he said to America’s political leaders.

“Let us go and give us some of this territory that we can call our own; and give us the billions of dollars that we can get started with land and with tractors and the things that will make us an independent nation. You could do that, if you would.  You don’t have a lot of time. And if you think I’m crazy, keep going the way you’re going and watch what God does.”