Grass and Range Fires East of the Cascades

As expected, the massive lightning event this week led to the ignition of several wildfires. But our region lucked out: few fires were started on the eastern slopes of the Cascades within forested areas. This is because we are in the early season, which means less time for drying in the slow-to-dry forested areas, and because of the distribution of lightning (relatively little lightning on the…