Risk of big Western wildfires lower in some areas higher in others

BOISE — Arrival of the high-risk period for large Western wildfires could be delayed in spots thanks to heavy rain and snow this winter and spring. “We have fewer concerns than we did in 2020 and 2021, for sure,” said Nick Nauslar, Predictive Services meteorologist for the National Interagency Fire Center. “A lot of it depends on how the fuel loading interacts with the fire weather we get this summer. In the Northwest, variables include “how the snow comes off and what sort of weather we get in the summer in terms of having near to above-normal rangeland fire potential,”…