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Boone & Newton County Wildfire Danger Elevated Late Last Week, Now Moderate

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 3:01 PM

By Coleman Smith

Boone and Newton County under high wildfire danger over the weekend.

KTLO Reported on Friday Dec. 5th that Boone and Newton are among 12 counties in the northwest corner of the state under a high wildfire danger according to the Arkansas Forestry Department..

Baxter, Marion, Fulton, Izard, Searcy and Stone counties are under a moderate wildfire danger.

The Forestry Department has since changed the wildfire danger for those 12 counties under the high danger warning to moderate.

Still anyone looking to conduct a controlled burn in a county under a wildfire danger needs to be mindful of wind speeds and low humidity. Arkansans can also check the status of wildfire dangers and burn bans throughout the state by going online to arkfireinfo.org.

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