Boulder County is under a red flag warning on Tuesday for elevations under 6,000 feet as the National Weather Service is warning of critical fire weather.\n<\/p>\n
The warning is in effect from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to NWS<\/a>. Critical fire weather warnings mean unusually high temperatures, low humidity and wind.<\/p>\n Winds are expected to persist between 15 and 25 mph, with gusts reaching 55 mph. Relative humidity will reach as low as 11%, according to NWS.<\/p>\n Open burning and agricultural burning is prohibited under Stage 1 burn restrictions across Boulder County<\/a> on Tuesday, according to the Boulder County Sheriff\u2019s office.\n<\/p>\n There have been two wildfires in the past two weeks in Boulder County.<\/p>\n A grass wildfire burned 35 acres<\/a> Monday in a field southwest of the U.S. 287 and Northwest Parkway interchange in the southeastern corner of Boulder. A preliminary investigation indicates that the fire started when a combine sparked while working in a cornfield, spreading to a haystack.\n<\/p>\n The fire prompted area evacuations, closed U.S. 287 and was contained to a haystack after its smoke was visible as far as Longmont.\n<\/p>\n Another wildfire burned about three acres in Fourmile Canyon<\/a> west of Boulder, only two days before Christmas. That fire, which sparked near Wild Turkey Trail, flared up amid an unusually warm day for December in Boulder County<\/a>.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boulder County is under a red flag warning on Tuesday for elevations under 6,000 feet as the National…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":498906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4437,4438,4439,9577,5295,746,5025,4440,38888,1370,728,38889,43083,50,159,92253,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-498905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-boulder","9":"tag-boulder-county","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-news","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-fire","15":"tag-front-range","16":"tag-lafayette","17":"tag-latest-headlines","18":"tag-local-news","19":"tag-longmont","20":"tag-louisville","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-superior","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115853851554081385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}