Wildfires means large fires covering square miles [or acres] at a time.
Big ones are:
- Larimer, Colorado [northernmost part of Colorado]. The High Park Fire.
- New, Mexico [southernmost part of the state], in/around/near mountain region of Ruidoso, and Sierra Blanca mountain range
A more accurate regional and specific wildfire location and distribution map is directly below:
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- Arizona
- Texas
- California
- New Mexico
- Colorado
- Georgia
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Season within the season explained:
This means, that some wildfires, could rage in some areas year round, which could take away from the notion of a wildfire season occurring only in a part of the year. Because wildfires are known for usually a higher rate of incidence per unit time, at certain times of the year, there is still wildfire season. What is brought to the forefront with the year-round season concept, is not to wait until the what used to be historically seasonal cycle, for readiness to prevent and suppress wildfires. Many things have happened over the course of time impacting a wildfire season, such as climatic changes, warming of geographic regions for different spans of time, and so on.
In geographical order, the 6 states, are in the southeastern portion of the U.S., Georgia; moving westward, Texas, in the south, which is toward the center of the country; moving northward, also near the center, is Colorado; toward the west, but not all the way west of the continental states, and in the south are NM, and Arizona, leaving Colorado is the northern most state effected by wildfires of the magnitude in this discussion; the possible exception, are fires in the northern part of California.
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