The Virginia Department of Forestry has been actively managing more than ten wildfires in Southwest Virginia since the beginning of March, according to Daniel Hosack, Headwaters District Forester. Hosack, who oversees nine counties in the region, said, “Most of these start historical debris burning is a really common way for brush fires to start.”
A significant fire in Lee County was contained over the past weekend. Meteorologist Kit Alexander said, “The big glow wildfire rapidly spread, it went from a smaller fire and overnight it rapidly spread up to 2,900 acres, that has been contained.”
With fire season in full swing, Hosack explained, “This time of year in the spring and fall you have a perfect combination of dead cured fuels, leaves dried grass combined with warmer temperatures, lower humidity and all of that mixes to create conditions to make a brush pile to escape into the woods.”…