{"id":429153,"date":"2026-04-10T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/429153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:18:16","slug":"wildfires-race-across-us-as-drought-spans-half-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/429153\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires Race Across US as Drought Spans Half the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">An unusually hot, snowless winter has fueled a fast start to the spring fire season across large swaths of the western,<strong> <\/strong>central and southeastern US, disrupting businesses and upending daily life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Nearly 19,000 have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nifc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/NICC\/1-Incident%20Information\/IMSR\/2026\/April\/IMSR_CY26_04092026.pdf\" title=\"Click for web link.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">ignited<\/a> nationwide since Jan. 1, about 6,900 more than normal compared to the past decade. In recent weeks, flames have scorched nearly 1 million acres of cattle grazing land and prairie in the Great Plains and dampened tourism in parts of the Everglades, where air boat operators have struggled to navigate dried-out swamps. Air tankers, frequently deployed over the West, are already in high demand, weeks ahead of schedule. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unusually hot, snowless winter has fueled a fast start to the spring fire season across large swaths&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[269],"tags":[1374,12008,442,18,440,2129,191229,10952,8241,19,17,23872,191230,133,5986,23927],"class_list":["post-429153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-california","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-climate-change","tag-eire","tag-environment","tag-florida","tag-generic-1st-fc-future","tag-green","tag-hawaii","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nebraska","tag-p-g-e-corp","tag-science","tag-tourism","tag-utilities"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116380140094711609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}