Wildfires are growing across the western U.S., triggering evacuation orders, as the threat of “dry lightning” prompted red flag warnings and fire weather watches to be issued from central California to northwest South Dakota on Monday.
As temperatures again rise, 80 large wildfires were burning across nearly 1.2 million acres in the West Sunday — 10 more than the previous day, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
These include 18 in Montana, 17 in Idaho, and nine each in California and Oregon — where the largest blaze in the U.S., the Bootleg Fire, grew even bigger to raze land about the size of Los Angeles Sunday.
The explosion of wildfires come as another heat wave grips the country, this time with the intensity focused on the northwest and northern areas.
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