There’s a wildfire burning in the town of Fowler where you might not expect one.
It's beneath the surface of land on Chub Lake Road and occasionally makes its way to the top.
It's what state forest rangers like Will Benzel call a ground fire.
"It starts off as a surface fire and then when the fire gets into the duff layer, it goes underground," he said.
According to Benzel, rangers have been on scene since Monday.
But the owner of the land, Max Tessmer, says local fire crews had been fighting the flames since late last week.
"I heard about it Friday," he said. To battle an underground blaze, Benzel says they need to create a control line.
Rangers dig under the organic material, also called a duff layer, to the unburnable minerals underneath.