Colorado wildfires had consumed 181, 426 acres by Wednesday afternoon, according to the Colorado Division of Emergency Management.
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"We're currently reaching out to fire departments and other agencies helping to fight the Colorado wildfires and provide relief services, " he said.
Swaths of Texas and the western U.S. have faced drought conditions for much of the year, including parts of Colorado where wildfires continue to burn.
The others were in 2008 and 2002, another highly destructive year for wildfires in Colorado and the Southwest.
Second, hit by the end of the dotcom boom and tourism-destroying wildfires, Colorado slumped into recession in 2001.
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On Monday, Rocky Mountain National Park enacted a ban on all campfires because of the threat of wildfires in Colorado.
Yesterday Forbes reported about the wildfires in Colorado Springs, Colorado, home to the U.S. Olympic Committee and its athlete training center.
In Colorado, meanwhile, wildfires threatened some of the state's most popular summer tourist destinations over the weekend, demolishing nearly two dozen homes near Rocky Mountain National Park and emptying hotels and campgrounds, according to the Associated Press.
Meanwhile Colorado is suffering massive wildfires.
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In fact, Trencheny plans to spin off a version of the Web app to track other current wildfires in Colorado, such as the High Park Fire outside Fort Collins, which has burned more than 87, 000 acres, or the Flagstaff Fire burning just outside Boulder.
That includes an outbreak of particularly large wildfires in Colorado, which had its warmest June ever, according to NOAA. Most of that state is experiencing extreme to exceptional drought, which is also true in places as far afield as Arizona and Georgia, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, run out of the University of Nebraska.
The U.S. Forest Service, Department of the Interior, Defense Department and the Federal Emergency Management Agency were providing support to Colorado and other states affected by wildfires and flash flooding, authorities said Sunday.
The blaze in South Dakota is one of several Western wildfires that have scorched thousands of acres across Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Utah and Wyoming.
According to Prof Roger Pielke Jnr, from the University of Colorado, there are big dangers in claiming that one event, be it US weather records or wildfires in Australia, are clear evidence of human-induced climate change.
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