Under the ground, even under the snow, fires are burning. While it’s common that such hot spots – known as holdover or zombie fires – can smoke and smoulder through the cold months, this amount of them is not. “We’ve seen this before but never at this scale,” says wildfire expert Dr. Mike Flannigan. Story behind paywall.
The Washington Post | These wildfires never went out — they just moved underground
February 26, 2024
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