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All of Southeast Arizona was put under a red flag warning early Tuesday morning, signaling an increased risk for wildfire ignition and spread.

Two new White Mountains wildfires are growing rapidly, with fire crews scrambling to get a box around them to prevent their spread.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation last week warned water users to brace for a 500,000 acre-foot cut in water from the Colorado River as a historic drought continues to tighten its grip on the Southwest. The cutback comes on top of a 200,000 acre-foot reduction Arizona water users agreed to last year to put off this day of reckoning. The Central Arizona Project provides more than a third of the state’s water. The reductions will mostly impact farmers. The sparse snowpack this winter soaked into the ground during the hot, dry spring — producing little runoff. The lack of runoff has drain...

Arizona already has seen a few fires this year, and experts say the state is likely to experience another major year for wildfires. In April alone, the Margo Fire in Pinal County burned about 1,100 acres, and another blaze continues to burn southwest of Heber. On Monday, a fire started southeast of Whiteriver and has burned 1,300 acres, according to InciWeb. Tiffany Davila, public affairs officer for the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, said there likely will be widespread fire activity across the state by June. One reason, Davila said, is plentiful dried vegetation that...

Hundreds Are Forced to Evacuate From Western Arizona Wildfire The Flag Fire has consumed 600 acres in the Hualapai Mountains in northwestern Arizona and prompted the evacuation of about 200 households, the authorities said. The fire, named the Flag Fire, started on Sunday and was raging in about 600 acres of the Hualapai Mountains, a mountain range in Mohave County, in northwestern Arizona, a county spokesman said on Monday.Credit...The Bee New Media April 26, 2021Updated 4:53 p.m. ET A wildfire in the pine tree-covered Hualapai Mountains of northwestern Arizona, which continued to burn on Mo...