{"id":886073,"date":"2026-04-11T04:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/886073\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T04:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:03:43","slug":"wildfires-race-across-us-as-drought-spans-half-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/886073\/","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":886074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3843],"tags":[557,3620,2311,728,577,250336,11670,500,56760,250337,70,5006,16,15,5359],"class_list":["post-886073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-california","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-florida","tag-generic-1st-fc-future","tag-green","tag-hawaii","tag-nebraska","tag-p-g-e-corp","tag-science","tag-tourism","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-utilities"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116384091607281241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}