Dry thunderstorms and high temperatures raise wildfire risk across the already-scorched West
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Dry thunderstorms on Saturday will raise the risk of sparking new wildfires in the western US, where numerous blazes have already scorched hundreds of thousands of acres.
Red flag warnings are posted Saturday for Idaho, Oregon and a small portion of Northern California, CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford said. And heat advisories and heat warnings are in effect for parts of Montana and Idaho, with some areas seeing temperatures as high as 106 degrees. As of Friday, 70 large fires in 12 states -- most of them in the western US -- had burned more than a million acres across the United States, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.More Related News