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It is only April, and New Mexico has already seen a year's worth of fire activity that will worsen starting today
CNN
New Mexico has seen wildfires burn more acres so far this year (over 173,000) than in seven of the last eight years, according to statistics from the Southwest Coordination Center, which coordinates the mobilization of resources between the twelve Federal and State Dispatch Centers of the Southwest Area.
And fire weather conditions are expected to worsen in the coming days. The peak of the fire season in New Mexico is not until June. The months with the highest number of fires are June, May, July and April -- in that order -- so the season still has a couple of months to go.
This year's fire season was off to an early start, "around a week and a half, almost two weeks earlier than average," said Andrew Church, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service (NWS) in Albuquerque.
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