Boulder County is under a red flag warning on Tuesday for elevations under 6,000 feet as the National Weather Service is warning of critical fire weather.\n<\/p>\n
The warning is in effect from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to NWS<\/a>. Critical fire weather warnings mean unusually high temperatures, low humidity and wind.<\/p>\n Winds are expected to persist between 15 and 25 mph, with gusts reaching 55 mph. Relative humidity will reach as low as 11%, according to NWS.<\/p>\n Open burning and agricultural burning is prohibited under Stage 1 burn restrictions across Boulder County<\/a> on Tuesday, according to the Boulder County Sheriff\u2019s office.\n<\/p>\n There have been two wildfires in the past two weeks in Boulder County.<\/p>\n A grass wildfire burned 35 acres<\/a> Monday in a field southwest of the U.S. 287 and Northwest Parkway interchange in the southeastern corner of Boulder. A preliminary investigation indicates that the fire started when a combine sparked while working in a cornfield, spreading to a haystack.\n<\/p>\n The fire prompted area evacuations, closed U.S. 287 and was contained to a haystack after its smoke was visible as far as Longmont.\n<\/p>\n Another wildfire burned about three acres in Fourmile Canyon<\/a> west of Boulder, only two days before Christmas. That fire, which sparked near Wild Turkey Trail, flared up amid an unusually warm day for December in Boulder County<\/a>.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boulder County is under a red flag warning on Tuesday for elevations under 6,000 feet as the National…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,25266,32595,3912,102238,176067,75,7770,3913,211397,3914,2289,211398,16736,44,128,211399],"class_list":["post-396398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boulder","tag-boulder-county","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-environment","tag-fire","tag-front-range","tag-lafayette","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-longmont","tag-louisville","tag-news","tag-science","tag-superior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}