With the season heating up, why not give the fires their own thread? Will they be bad enough to affect beef production? The SW water problems?
I don't know, but 3 million acres seems a lot.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/28/g-s1-130737/wildfires-utah-colorado-firefighter-deaths-snyder

The biggest blaze is the Cottonwood Fire, burning in rugged terrain in southern Utah's Beaver County, which has grown to more than 144 square miles and remains entirely uncontained. It is currently the largest wildfire burning anywhere in the United States.