Looking ahead to the fall wildfire season

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The 2025 wildfire season is running below average for acreage burned, but risks remain high due to fall winds in California and drought in the Northeast.

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00:00it's not sometimes about how many acres burn it's about where those fires are burning from

00:07california's palisades fire in january to the dragon bravo fire near the grand canyon this

00:12summer 2025 has already brought costly and destructive wildfires even as overall acreage

00:18burned remains well below normal luckily for the season we're at about 71 of average in terms of

00:26acreage burn so we're at about 4.66 million acres right now the average again just over six and a

00:32half million the focus now shifts to what lies ahead in california the peak of the fire season

00:37runs through november we'll always be keeping a very close eye out for that inherent risk of the

00:42santa anna and other offshore wind events out west uh you know into the winter months you know we

00:47can still see those santa anna event sweeps into southern california during a stretch of dry weather

00:53that can really just ramp up the risk at the same time drought is building east of the mississippi

00:58river where fallen leaves and backyard burn piles could become more dangerous fuels for fires that

01:03may spring up these fires aren't typically as large as the ones we see out west but there's more

01:09i guess structures and more infrastructure to potentially burn fire officials caution that

01:15until wetter systems move in dangerous conditions may continue and the toughest part of the season

01:20could still be ahead for accuweather i'm meteorologist tony lawback

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