wildfire season

What's the current fire forecast? State officials says currently indicators point towards an average fire season, depending on weather and trigger events such as dry lighting and wind.

With California’s wildfire season beginning to intensify, farm groups say they're looking for solutions to a lack of N95 respirators.

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington's wildfire season got off to an abrupt and early start this month when two separate blazes tore through dry, steep forest less than 70 miles from Seattle. Fire officials say they were surprised to see wildfires burning this early west of the Cascades Mountains, particularly one that scorched nearly 300 acres...

This fire season has turned out be intense and unusual. More than 56,000 acres are burning throughout the state. Firefighters and neighbors KIMA Action News talked to said they've never seen a fire season like this. More than three-thousand lightning strikes sparked four complex fires across the middle of the state...

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