The training manager of Nebraska’s Wildland Fire Academy says it’s still anyone’s guess as to how bad the year ahead will be for wildfires. Casey McCoy, with the Nebraska Forest Service, says he puts little stock in long-range forecasts and says your odds of predicting a wildfire season would be just as good as flipping a coin.
McCoy says there’s the potential for another bad series of brushfires, based on how 2014 started out.
2012 was Nebraska’s worst year for wildfires. There were almost a half-million acres burned, 65 structures lost and about 12-million dollars spent fighting fires.
