{"id":364840,"date":"2025-12-23T03:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364840\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T03:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:20:13","slug":"critical-fire-conditions-across-boulder-county-amid-record-breaking-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364840\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical fire conditions across Boulder County amid record-breaking temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boulder County is under a red flag warning on Monday for elevations under 9,000 feet as the <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/wwamap\/wwatxtget.php?cwa=BOU&amp;wwa=red%20flag%20warning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service<\/a> is warning of critical fire weather.\n<\/p>\n<p>The warning is in effect from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, according to NWS.  The warnings come only three days after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2025\/12\/19\/wind-colorado-dangerous-red-flag-warning-weather-forecast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three-day windstorm<\/a> that brought 100-plus mph winds to the county.<\/p>\n<p>Critical fire weather warnings mean unusually high temperatures, low humidity and wind. In both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/us\/boulder\/80302\/weather-forecast\/327347\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boulder<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/us\/longmont\/80501\/weather-forecast\/332150\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Longmont<\/a>, the forecast high is a record-breaking 72 degrees, according to Accuweather, which is one degree higher than the record for Dec. 22 set in 1933, when it was only 71 degrees.\n<\/p>\n<p>Open burning and agricultural burning is prohibited across Boulder County on Monday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BldrCOSheriff\/status\/2002877380969533653\" rel=\"nofollow\">Boulder County Sheriff\u2019s office<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boulder County is under a red flag warning on Monday for elevations under 9,000 feet as the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[18881,18882,3832,9045,69156,192,4142,2558,983,57630,3,79,2986],"class_list":{"0":"post-364840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-boulder","9":"tag-boulder-county","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-news","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-front-range","15":"tag-latest-headlines","16":"tag-local-news","17":"tag-longmont","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364840","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=364840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}