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As the Tunnel Fire nears full containment, teams of scientists are assessing its impact and have completed a map showing that more than two-thirds of soils burned at low severity.
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The Crooks Fire burning near Prescott is now 83% contained at just over 9,400 acres. Many evacuations have been lifted. Tunnel Fire is close to full containment.
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Despite critical fire weather this weekend and winds in excess of 50 mph, firefighters gained more containment of wildfires burning in northern Arizona.
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The Tunnel Fire burned through Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument and headed north toward the edge of Wupatki National Monument, through a woodland of pinyon-juniper trees. That region experienced a dramatic die-off of junipers in the last few years. Before the fire, National Park Service staff partnered with NASA to map the dead trees using satellite images. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with ecologist Nicole Ramberg-Pihl, a member of the NASA team, about their findings.
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U.S. Forest Service officials say they’ll implement stage 1 fire restrictions beginning Thu, May 5 across the entire Coconino National Forest as well as the southern portion of the Kaibab National Forest and the City of Flagstaff.
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Coconino County officials say communities along the Highway 89 corridor have been downgraded from SET status to READY status for evacuation related to the Tunnel Fire. This includes communities north of Flagstaff, from Campbell Avenue to the north entrance of Forest Service Road 545 (Wupatki National Monument).
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Fire managers area calling the Tunnel Fire near Flagstaff 43% contained. Crews are making progress despite high winds. Management of the 19, 000 blaze will transition to the Coconino National Forest and a Type 4 team on Friday, April 29, 2022.
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Fire managers are calling the Tunnel Fire near Flagstaff 43% contained this morning.
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In the 1970s American insurance companies paid less than $100 million a year toward wildfire losses; now the annual average reaches as high as $13 billion.
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Though it’s still early in the year, this fire season has already been a costly one as nearly a dozen large wildfires have scorched hundreds of thousands of across the U.S. In Arizona, the combined costs of battling the Tunnel and Crooks fires have exceeded $12 million.