MTSasquatch
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- Jul 21, 2019
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Agreed. Most folks correlate winter and spring snowpack to fire season, but summer precip seems to be more indicative of the potential for fire activity and the ability of starts to be contained or get out of containment and turn into large fires.We were in the red for several days (under 50%), this last bit of snow put us closer to 60%. We got close to an inch of precip in town—I see the drought map improved for most of the state.
June precip will likely be the crux of what kind of fire season we have
Snowpack influences fuel moistures a great deal, but summer precip influences start or growth probabilities more in my experience.