Yellowstone’s first fire of 2023 was reported on July 22, 2023.
- Yellowstone Issues ‘High’ Warning for Wildfires — What to Know (travelandleisure.com)
- Yellowstone confirms first wildland fire of 2023, raises fire danger to high (kbzk.com)
4 fighters put out the fire, using shovels. Obviously, not a conflagration.
What were the first dates of fires in Yellowstone in recent years?
- 2022: July 20
- 2021: June 24
- 2020: August 1
- 2019: July 17
- 2018: September 12
Dates of fires in 2017 and earlier are not provided by Yellowstone, unfortunately.
From the above, this appears to be a completely normal fire season in Yellowstone as of July 29, 2023.
The fire danger level of “High” is the midpoint of the fire danger scale. The scale has 5 settings:
- Low
- Moderate
- High
- Very High
- Extreme
High and above is the normal setting during the summer and fall in the western U.S. The risk level is typically raised to Moderate in June as snows melt, and then to High in July as green grasses begin to dry out. By late summer and fall, the alert level is typically at Very High or Extreme until winter rains or snows start to fall.
Note – In the 21st century it is tough to practice factfulness, to ask reasonable questions, and to try and understand the actual details. Unfortunately, noting inconsistencies and contradictions is, in the 21st century, forbidden and results in being name called as a “denier”, even if that is not the case.
Followup October 2023: Fire Season Summary – Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
Yellowstone had 7 fires, with six of them being a fraction of an acre, and one fire at 5.8 acres. It was the least number of fires since the above link begins in 2016. The media’s yellow journalism is wrong about most everything they report on now days.
