{"id":207987,"date":"2025-10-08T02:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/207987\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:20:08","slug":"wildfires-on-the-rise-as-drought-continues-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/207987\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires on the rise as drought continues in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND (WGME) &#8212; Wildfires are happening more than usual as the drought continues in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Maine Forest Service, there have been 762 wildfires in Maine so far this year, including one Tuesday in Alfred that burned a third of an acre.<\/p>\n<p>Maine&#8217;s Drought Task Force says since 2021, Maine has seen 500 to 600 wildfires per year.<\/p>\n<p>The Maine Forest Service says in almost every fire, people are to blame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over 90 percent of our fires are human-caused, and the top causes tend to be pretty consistent: open debris burning that is, you know, improperly extinguished or escapes containment, recreational campfires, similar, that aren&#8217;t properly extinguished,\u201d Maine Forest Service Forest Fire Prevention Specialist Terri Teller said.<\/p>\n<p>She also says, as leaves fall and the drought continues, those dry leaves can fuel fires.<\/p>\n<p>The forest service says the rain Tuesday night into Wednesday should help with conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND (WGME) &#8212; Wildfires are happening more than usual as the drought continues in Maine. According to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[15229,192,119247,56635,119244,10482,119245,119246,79,6399],"class_list":["post-207987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-fire-prevention","tag-forest-service","tag-human-caused","tag-maine","tag-open-debris-burning","tag-recreational-campfires","tag-science","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}