Although a wet winter provided some relief to drought conditions across the state, more vegetation could be a factor in an active wildfire season.
Captain Hesly Guerrero with the Tubac Fire District said last year, many of the fires his district encountered were started by dry lightning or were man-made.In 2022, the Department of Forestry and Fire Management reported 1,444 fires in Arizona with 941 of them being human-caused—the others caused naturally.With all the moisture from active winter weather, the department says this can create a dry and dense fuel bed once temperatures rise and conditions dry out in the warmer months.
Guerrero says the most important thing to do is listen to evacuation orders and gather valuables beforehand making them easy to grab when a fire breaks out.RELATED: Safety tips for preventing Arizona wildfiresFaith Abercrombie is a reporter for KGUN 9. Before coming to KGUN, Faith worked as a videographer for the Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation and as a reporter and producer on the youth suicide documentary,"Life is..." on Arizona PBS.
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