Any thoughts on the seemingly unusually large number of wildfires nationwide...

[76-1]

Seems far too early in the year to blame an unusually dry environment, especially since nearly all of these fires are quite a bit east of the Rockies...

Check out the 2nd map/graphic:

Dozens of wildfires continue to burn across the country

Fire crews across the country have been busy trying to contain and extinguish dozens of wildfires that have broken out and burned tens of thousands of acres and forced thousands of people from their homes.

www.foxweather.com

Arson or Lightning strikes??? What say you?

 

[Mas-sa-suta]

Seems far too early in the year to blame an unusually dry environment, especially since nearly all of these fires are quite a bit east of the Rockies...

Check out the 2nd map/graphic:

Dozens of wildfires continue to burn across the country

Fire crews across the country have been busy trying to contain and extinguish dozens of wildfires that have broken out and burned tens of thousands of acres and forced thousands of people from their homes.

www.foxweather.com

Arson or Lightning strikes??? What say you?

We need to register and permit all types of combustion devices; butane lighters,kitchen matches, flint/steel hybrids, magnifying glasses, combustion mechanisms of every type.

No one 'needs' a lighter. There are literally millions out there with no training, or even a clue as to the potential disaster from just one small, unobtrusive Bic flick.

Those who cannot relinquish their obsession with these terrible instruments of death should, at the least, undergo re-education.....use the FEMA facilities already built to house them.

It's time for Change!

 

[UncleMark]

(low hanging fruit)

Jewish Space Lasers

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Seems far too early in the year to blame an unusually dry environment, especially since nearly all of these fires are quite a bit east of the Rockies...

Check out the 2nd map/graphic:

Dozens of wildfires continue to burn across the country

Fire crews across the country have been busy trying to contain and extinguish dozens of wildfires that have broken out and burned tens of thousands of acres and forced thousands of people from their homes.

www.foxweather.com

Arson or Lightning strikes??? What say you?

Probably both human and lightning. Way too many human started fires between arson and people just not being safe. The fires in Ky/TN aren't where there is any sort of active drought so I'm not sure what's up with that. It would seem unusual for people to suddenly be unsafe or sudden arsonists in an area like that.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/data/png/current/current_usdm.png

I am surprised at the map on the Fox site, the NCAR fire in Boulder was 190 acres and not contained until late on the 31st. I would have thought it would appear since one in Arizona did.

 

[IUCrazy2]

Seems far too early in the year to blame an unusually dry environment, especially since nearly all of these fires are quite a bit east of the Rockies...

Check out the 2nd map/graphic:

Dozens of wildfires continue to burn across the country

Fire crews across the country have been busy trying to contain and extinguish dozens of wildfires that have broken out and burned tens of thousands of acres and forced thousands of people from their homes.

www.foxweather.com

Arson or Lightning strikes??? What say you?

It would be interesting to overlay a map of interstates and major highways over the map of the fires. So tinfoil hat, but one grouping of fires seems to originate from the Miami port of entry and then moves north through GA into Appalachia. A second starts at the Texas/Mexico border and then moves North through eastern Texas and Oklahoma. Then another at the Arizona/Mexico border that then shifts to the east and runs up through the plains states. Likelihood that tinfoil hat scenario of a saboteur is doing this, less than 1%.

Has it been unusually dry in the south and plains this winter? In Indiana we have been pretty wet all winter it seems. Those patterns could be following a storm track. Weather tends to move in the same directions so it would not be odd to see bad storms hitting along that path on multiple occasions and setting them off.

The Appalachian ones are kind of weird though. The smokey mountains are a rain forest, so it would have to get kind of dry up there for a big fire to really get going.

Edit to add: The article indicates that they know at least one of them was started by humans. Marvin is most likely correct, a mix of weather and people. Either that or the Russkies have found a way to get revenge...

 

[Noodle]

Aliens, definitely aliens. But I have no idea if they are Jewish aliens. I mean, how would we know if they're Jewish?

 

[Noodle]

Seems far too early in the year to blame an unusually dry environment, especially since nearly all of these fires are quite a bit east of the Rockies...

Check out the 2nd map/graphic:

Dozens of wildfires continue to burn across the country

Fire crews across the country have been busy trying to contain and extinguish dozens of wildfires that have broken out and burned tens of thousands of acres and forced thousands of people from their homes.

www.foxweather.com

Arson or Lightning strikes??? What say you?

We had our first red flag warning that I can ever remember here in Cincy this week. So, yeah, it has been unusually dry, coupled with extremely high winds.

 

[mcmurtry66]

It would be interesting to overlay a map of interstates and major highways over the map of the fires. So tinfoil hat, but one grouping of fires seems to originate from the Miami port of entry and then moves north through GA into Appalachia. A second starts at the Texas/Mexico border and then moves North through eastern Texas and Oklahoma. Then another at the Arizona/Mexico border that then shifts to the east and runs up through the plains states. Likelihood that tinfoil hat scenario of a saboteur is doing this, less than 1%.

Has it been unusually dry in the south and plains this winter? In Indiana we have been pretty wet all winter it seems. Those patterns could be following a storm track. Weather tends to move in the same directions so it would not be odd to see bad storms hitting along that path on multiple occasions and setting them off.

The Appalachian ones are kind of weird though. The smokey mountains are a rain forest, so it would have to get kind of dry up there for a big fire to really get going.

Edit to add: The article indicates that they know at least one of them was started by humans. Marvin is most likely correct, a mix of weather and people. Either that or the Russkies have found a way to get revenge...

Stills blowing up in App

 

[Noodle]

Seems far too early in the year to blame an unusually dry environment, especially since nearly all of these fires are quite a bit east of the Rockies...

Check out the 2nd map/graphic:

Dozens of wildfires continue to burn across the country

Fire crews across the country have been busy trying to contain and extinguish dozens of wildfires that have broken out and burned tens of thousands of acres and forced thousands of people from their homes.

www.foxweather.com

Arson or Lightning strikes??? What say you?

Wait a minute, though. Even if some were arson, they can't spread into major fires like this unless the area has been unusually dry, right?

 

[outside shooter]

Gotta be Biden's fault

 

[UncleMark]

Gotta be Biden's fault

Need to rake the forest floors.

 

[Joe_Hoopsier]

We need to register and permit all types of combustion devices; butane lighters,kitchen matches, flint/steel hybrids, magnifying glasses, combustion mechanisms of every type.

No one 'needs' a lighter. There are literally millions out there with no training, or even a clue as to the potential disaster from just one small, unobtrusive Bic flick.

Those who cannot relinquish their obsession with these terrible instruments of death should, at the least, undergo re-education.....use the FEMA facilities already built to house them.

It's time for Change!

Not to mention, people should just go buy renewable energy electric lighters!

 

[HillzHoozier]

Aliens, definitely aliens. But I have no idea if they are Jewish aliens. I mean, how would we know if they're Jewish?

Jewish aliens wear those little hats.

 

[Noodle]

Jewish aliens wear those little hats.

Ahhh. You mean like this?:

 

[JamieDimonsBalls]

Aliens, definitely aliens. But I have no idea if they are Jewish aliens. I mean, how would we know if they're Jewish?

Ask them what they call potato pancakes.

 

[mcmurtry66]

Aliens, definitely aliens. But I have no idea if they are Jewish aliens. I mean, how would we know if they're Jewish?

See if they pronounce Challah like Chuck. Then we'll know

 

[hoosboot]

See if they pronounce Challah like Chuck. Then we'll know

 

[82hoosier]

People are not raking the forest!

 

[DANC]

It would be interesting to overlay a map of interstates and major highways over the map of the fires. So tinfoil hat, but one grouping of fires seems to originate from the Miami port of entry and then moves north through GA into Appalachia. A second starts at the Texas/Mexico border and then moves North through eastern Texas and Oklahoma. Then another at the Arizona/Mexico border that then shifts to the east and runs up through the plains states. Likelihood that tinfoil hat scenario of a saboteur is doing this, less than 1%.

Has it been unusually dry in the south and plains this winter? In Indiana we have been pretty wet all winter it seems. Those patterns could be following a storm track. Weather tends to move in the same directions so it would not be odd to see bad storms hitting along that path on multiple occasions and setting them off.

The Appalachian ones are kind of weird though. The smokey mountains are a rain forest, so it would have to get kind of dry up there for a big fire to really get going.

Edit to add: The article indicates that they know at least one of them was started by humans. Marvin is most likely correct, a mix of weather and people. Either that or the Russkies have found a way to get revenge...

I live in Charlotte, NC, a couple hours away from the mountains.

We had a Red Alert last weekend - high winds and very low humidity. Good conditions for fires.

 

[CO. Hoosier]

Seems far too early in the year to blame an unusually dry environment, especially since nearly all of these fires are quite a bit east of the Rockies...

Check out the 2nd map/graphic:

Dozens of wildfires continue to burn across the country

Fire crews across the country have been busy trying to contain and extinguish dozens of wildfires that have broken out and burned tens of thousands of acres and forced thousands of people from their homes.

www.foxweather.com

Arson or Lightning strikes??? What say you?

Most all wild fires are human caused. As we have more humans in fire-prone areas, we will have more fires. But we really aren’t having stistically significantly more fires as the graph shows. We just have more news reporting about the basically same number of fires. The graph also shows how data is manipulated.

We also hear that drought and fires are related. The same is true for high moisture years. When we have a wet winter and spring, we grow more grasses and brush for fuel. When the inevitable dry months come in late summer and fall, we get more fires because of high fuel.

Brush and grass fires are routine along the front range in winter. . They ordinarily are easily extinguished. The recent horrible Boulder County brush fire was really a wind storm. The fire started and then 100+ mph winds took it from there. High wind events are also not unusual in the Boulder area. Sad that these two events happened on the same day within hours of each othe.

 

[TommyCracker]

Another big cause of forest fires recently have been the electrical grid failing.

The majority of our high powered wires are uninsulated and were put up nearly a century ago....clamps and supports have been breaking down dropping live wires onto brush.

Problem is it's extremely expensive to replace and the legal path is a nasty one (since you're dealing with private property, state property, federal property, etc that the current grid cuts through).

 

[76-1]

Most all wild fires are human caused. As we have more humans in fire-prone areas, we will have more fires. But we really aren’t having stistically significantly more fires as the graph shows. We just have more news reporting about the basically same number of fires. The graph also shows how data is manipulated.

We also hear that drought and fires are related. The same is true for high moisture years. When we have a wet winter and spring, we grow more grasses and brush for fuel. When the inevitable dry months come in late summer and fall, we get more fires because of high fuel.

Brush and grass fires are routine along the front range in winter. . They ordinarily are easily extinguished. The recent horrible Boulder County brush fire was really a wind storm. The fire started and then 100+ mph winds took it from there. High wind events are also not unusual in the Boulder area. Sad that these two events happened on the same day within hours of each othe.

From the Rockies on West the uptick in wildfires, while concerning, is understandable... This wouldn't seem to be the same situation in the East where multiple notable snow and rain events have occurred over the past 4 months...

I'm putting on my tinfoil helmet (with my special hanger wire fashioned rail attachment rig) and projecting that both the frequency and the pattern of the fires in the East indicate a pattern...

When I see a distinct pattern in areas that you wouldn't expect to see fires in early spring, I have to go with what I believe is a concerted effort by entities unknown to cause these fires (on a large scale)...

 

[CO. Hoosier]

Another big cause of forest fires recently have been the electrical grid failing.

The majority of our high powered wires are uninsulated and were put up nearly a century ago....clamps and supports have been breaking down dropping live wires onto brush.

Problem is it's extremely expensive to replace and the legal path is a nasty one (since you're dealing with private property, state property, federal property, etc that the current grid cuts through).

these fires would be in the human caused category. As I understand it, California regulated and restricted brush and tree clearing under and around transmission lines because of aesthetics and that was part of the problem. Transmission lines in the Colorado mountains are easily visible because the rights of way are cleared, As far as I know the state doesn’t regulate this issue and the extent of clearing depends on the individual easements. .

 

[Mas-sa-suta]

It would be interesting to overlay a map of interstates and major highways over the map of the fires. So tinfoil hat, but one grouping of fires seems to originate from the Miami port of entry and then moves north through GA into Appalachia. A second starts at the Texas/Mexico border and then moves North through eastern Texas and Oklahoma. Then another at the Arizona/Mexico border that then shifts to the east and runs up through the plains states. Likelihood that tinfoil hat scenario of a saboteur is doing this, less than 1%.

Has it been unusually dry in the south and plains this winter? In Indiana we have been pretty wet all winter it seems. Those patterns could be following a storm track. Weather tends to move in the same directions so it would not be odd to see bad storms hitting along that path on multiple occasions and setting them off.

The Appalachian ones are kind of weird though. The smokey mountains are a rain forest, so it would have to get kind of dry up there for a big fire to really get going.

Edit to add: The article indicates that they know at least one of them was started by humans. Marvin is most likely correct, a mix of weather and people. Either that or the Russkies have found a way to get revenge...

Definitely Slavic Orthodox Christians with thick accents..

Definitely...

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Most all wild fires are human caused. As we have more humans in fire-prone areas, we will have more fires. But we really aren’t having stistically significantly more fires as the graph shows. We just have more news reporting about the basically same number of fires. The graph also shows how data is manipulated.

We also hear that drought and fires are related. The same is true for high moisture years. When we have a wet winter and spring, we grow more grasses and brush for fuel. When the inevitable dry months come in late summer and fall, we get more fires because of high fuel.

Brush and grass fires are routine along the front range in winter. . They ordinarily are easily extinguished. The recent horrible Boulder County brush fire was really a wind storm. The fire started and then 100+ mph winds took it from there. High wind events are also not unusual in the Boulder area. Sad that these two events happened on the same day within hours of each othe.

Reminds me of when you tried to defend the so-called global warming "pause."

 

[Joe_Hoopsier]

Isn't measuring (counting) fires the same as wondering how the horse already got out of the barn?
Maybe measure the fire load, which should be a "constant", and not the one data point that nefarious humans can affect to effect their narrative., which would be .... A FIRE.