Recent cloud cover and a small amount of rain have aided the hot, dry conditions the state has been experiencing, but officials warn that Alaska isn’t out of the woods yet in terms of fire danger.
“We haven’t quite had the wind component this year, so in that way we’ve been lucky,” Knutson added.
“You have to feel for them, I’m sure that was somewhat of a financial loss to them,” Knutson said. “I’m nearly positive that that prevented forest fires. There’s basically no way that it didn’t with seven fireworks caused fires last year.”, the state has experienced 505 wildfires so far this year, with 258 of those still active. Just over 2.7 million acres are estimated to have burned.
“What we need is a prolonged period of wetting rain,” Welsh said. “We need inches of rain to actually, you know, penetrate this duff layer and put these fires out or saturate the fuels.”
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