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By the Numbers: Is it Actually a Slow Wildfire Season?

By the Numbers: Is it Actually a Slow Wildfire Season?

What this year looks like on a historic scale.

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Jul 10, 2023
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How slow is the fire season so far this year? It’s slower than the last crewmember in the hike line. Don’t get me wrong; there are Hotshot crews pushing 500+ hours of OT already because they basically live in Canada now…

But in the United States, it’s historically slow, and the numbers are in.

Going into this wildfire season, it seemed as though the entir…

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