{"id":797506,"date":"2019-07-10T13:12:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=368612"},"modified":"2019-07-10T13:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T19:12:02","slug":"summit-county-wildfire-danger-raised-to-moderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-county-wildfire-danger-raised-to-moderate\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County wildfire danger raised to moderate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/FireBan-SDN-09618-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/FireBan-SDN-09618-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/FireBan-SDN-09618-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>The county&#8217;s fire danger meter has been raised from low to moderate.<\/strong><br \/><em>Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>FRISCO \u2014 Fire danger in Summit County will be upgraded from low to moderate Thursday, July 11, according to Summit Fire &amp; EMS Chief Jeff Berino.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When determining the fire danger, crews measure the energy release component, or how much fuel is in a material compared to moisture. Timber is near the 58th percentile, which is below normal for this time of year, and grass fire danger has risen slightly, Berino said.<\/p>\n<p>Berino reported that local and regional fire planning levels are at a one on a one to five scale, with five being the highest, so resources&nbsp;are plentiful and the only significant wildfires are in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>About 120 wildfires burning across Alaska have charred more than 1 million acres.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to home, this wildfire season is off to a slow start compared with last year, when Colorado and the rest of the West experienced one of the worst seasons in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the Buffalo Mountain Fire in Summit County nearly destroyed the Wildernest and Mesa Cortina neighborhoods, with flames burning within 30 feet of structures. The fire sparked in mid-June, when fire danger was high.<\/p>\n<div class=\"p402_hide\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/FHTF-SDN-122018-1.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-353180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/FHTF-SDN-122018-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/FHTF-SDN-122018-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>This aerial shot of Mesa Cortina neighborhood shows how close the Buffalo Mountain Fire got to destroying homes in June 2018.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy of U.S. Forest Service<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-wildfire-danger-raised-to-moderate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The county&#8217;s fire danger meter has been raised from low to moderate.Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com FRISCO \u2014 Fire danger in Summit County will be upgraded from low to moderate Thursday, July 11, according to Summit Fire &amp; EMS Chief Jeff Berino.&nbsp;&nbsp; When determining the fire danger, crews measure the energy release component, or how much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 18:35:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}