You’ve felt the heat and now you’re seeing — or perhaps even smelling — the smoke. Washington’s wildfire season is well underway and scientists are saying the state has reached a dangerous period a month earlier than normal.
This is the convergence of a poor winter snowpack, a warm spring chipping away at the state’s water supply and a hot, dry summer.
This has compounded threats from the long-term accumulation of grasses, shrubs and trees that fuel wildfires across the region and generations of wildfire suppression…