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Below-normal precipitation, above-normal temperatures expected. Fuel loading remains concern following dry spring.

Fire weather in New Mexico is forecast to ramp up again this weekend after cooler temperatures helped personnel make progress on the nation's largest blaze.

Federal wildland fire forecasters have issued their summer outlook with a series of maps, showing ominous splotches of red that indicate above-normal fire potential expanding over much of the Mountain West.

Federal wildland fire forecasters have issued their summer outlook with a series of maps, showing ominous splotches of red that indicate above-normal fire potential expanding over much of the Mountain West.

Federal wildland fire forecasters have issued their summer outlook with a series of maps, showing ominous splotches of red that indicate above-normal fire potential expanding over much of the Mountain West.

Northwest precipitation prompts rangeland concern.

Northwest precipitation prompts rangeland concern.

Federal wildland fire forecasters have issued their summer outlook with a series of maps, showing ominous splotches of red that indicate above-normal fire potential expanding over much of the Mountain West.

As bleak as it sounds, the post-apocalyptic, smoke-filled skylines that have become part of summer on the prairies over the past few years are likely to be a thing of our future. 

Although the average temperature for summer 2021 in Wyoming was above normal, the number of wildland fires were not. Bill Crapser with the Wyoming State Forestry Division, says there were about 967 wildland fires in the Cowboy State in 2021, that did not need assistance from federal firefighting