MAP: The latest Arkansas Forestry Division map, as of Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 24, shows several counties under a burn ban as all of the state remains under a Moderate or High risk of wildfire danger. The map is subject to change.
Burn bans have cropped up in four Southwest Arkansas counties as wildfire danger is high to moderate across the entire state.
County judges in Miller (Texarkana), Hempstead (Hope), Lafayette (Lewisville) and Columbia (Magnolia) counties issued burn bans early this week, joining nearly a dozen others in the northern half of the state as conditions worsen for wildfire danger despite last weekend’s heavy rainfall…