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Winter’s snow, rain to delay wildfire season

Other regions of country may see more severe blazes

By Associated Press
Published: May 1, 2017, 8:12pm
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A plane drops a load of fire retardant on the north side of Beacon Hill, in Spokane, in 2016. Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, said Monday in their 2017 summer fire outlook that exceptional winter conditions and heavy spring rains will likely delay the onset of this season's nastiest wildfires.
A plane drops a load of fire retardant on the north side of Beacon Hill, in Spokane, in 2016. Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, said Monday in their 2017 summer fire outlook that exceptional winter conditions and heavy spring rains will likely delay the onset of this season's nastiest wildfires. (Associated Press files) Photo Gallery

BOISE, Idaho — Wildfires this summer are expected to be most severe in southwestern U.S. states, Florida, Georgia and in some parts of California and Nevada, forecasters said Monday.

The summer 2017 fire outlook issued by the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise also said heavy winter snow and spring rains that flooded many Western states will probably delay the onset of this season’s worst wildfires.

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