VIDEO: Just five months into the year and Utah has already had 185 wildfires, with more than 6,000 acres burned across the state; all but three were human caused fires.
"Conditions are really alarming across the state. We are concerned," said Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands (FFSL) fire prevention coordinator, Kait Webb. "There's drought over almost the entire state right now, and we are anticipating hot and dry summer." According to FFSL, fire managers across Utah are reporting fuel moisture levels and fire activity not usually seen until the hotter and drier months of June and July.
"As the season continues to warm up, and we continue to dry out, we're expecting those conditions to maintain that severity that we're seeing right now, and potentially even increase," Webb added.
182 of the 185 wildfires this year have been human caused.