Despite all the rain we’ve been seeing in recent months, there’s a high chance for brush fires right now. Firefighters in several western Massachusetts communities have been busy battling brush fires just this week alone.
“So this time of year, brushfires are definitely more present, even if it’s been a wet spring,” said Western Mass News First Alert Meteorologist Dan Brown.
Firefighters in communities including Hampden, Palmer, and Monson have responded to brush fires in recent days. Brown told us a big misconception is that brush fires are less likely to occur during rainy spring seasons.
“So it doesn’t matter how wet the spring was. It’s all about like what are the conditions like within the last six or 12 hours or even in the last couple of hours because if it dries out and the sun beating down the forest floor, a lot of leaves, a lot of twigs, things of that nature on the ground and the relative humidity fall, that can lead to those brush fires,” Brown explained.