Dozens of wildfires are still burning across the West, a few of them now covering more than 100,000 acres each. The largest one reported to InciWeb, the National Fire Information Center’s website, is the Bootleg fire in southern Oregon. It was about 364,000 acres in size as of Monday evening — bigger than New York City — and only 30% contained.
Persistent drought and dry thunderstorms will keep the risk of new wildfire development elevated in a large part of the Northwest and portions of the...
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