Spring brings warmer weather, lower relative humidities, and high winds. This weather process tends to dry out fuels like grass, brush, and timber which can result in severe fire behavior that is not ideal for landscape benefit. Wind is especially troublesome because it threatens to move prescribed fire into unplanned areas or carry embers aloft beyond and outside of control lines.
Prescribed fires are generally conducted in the spring and again in the fall when weather conditions are favorable. Fire managers continually monitor weather conditions leading up to, during, and after...