Kansas Grass Fires

BUTLER COUNTY Kan.

Kansas grass fires. Firefighters across Kansas are out battling grass fires as high winds gusting upwards of 60 miles per hour and warm weather fuel the flames. Laura Kelly declared a state of disaster. Three years after a wildfire burned more than 450000 acres in Kansas officials are warning that an abundance of dry grass could raise the risk of fires across the state.

This video was taken Monday evening March 6th 2017 somewhere around Meade Kansas about 6 miles high. Wildfires have broke out in multiple regions of Kansas. A grass fire in northwest Kansas burned about one square mile of CPR land near the RooksGraham county line.

The highest wind gust reported at the Russell Municipal Airport was 100 mph. Grass fires are burning in central and western Kansas as high winds and dry conditions create extreme to catastrophic fire danger. See more detailed weather briefings and links to all NWS Fire Weather Forecasts on the KFS Fire Weather Page.

Frequent fires ignited by native peoples or lightning maintained the grassland destroying shrubs and trees that would otherwise encroach on the land while letting native fire-adapted grasses thrive. That it had burned 3000 acres. KWCH - Crews are responding to several grass fires along K-254 in Butler and Sedgwick counties.

The Kansas National Guard will deploy helicopters in an effort to put out wildfires in several counties in central and western Kansas several state departments said in a news release Thursday. Today less than four percent of the prairie remains mostly in eastern Kansas and Oklahoma and fire is still a critical component of the ecosystem. Grass and shrub wildfire is greater than 300 acres.

In Trego County west of Hays Kansas exhausted volunteer firefighters battled what they could well into the night and prepared to head back out Thursday morning to tame grass fires singing acres. High winds low humidity and kindling in the form of dry grasses made the state susceptible to fires. The National Weather Service said on.