GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. – So far this year, there have been 732 wildfires reported across the state, burning around 10,000 acres. Leanne Langeberg, with the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center, says there was above-normal fire activity early in the season.
She says April did bring in more precipitation which has helped green up much of the grasslands and the number of fires is starting to taper back to more normal levels.
According to the Interagency Fire Center, the 2024 Minnesota wildfire season started six weeks earlier than usual. Traditionally, late March to early April is when there’s a steady rise in spring wildfire activity following the receding snowpack from Southern Minnesota northward.
Due to the exceptionally warm winter with little to no snowpack this year, most of Minnesota was snow-free.
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