(Radio Iowa) – Most of Iowa is under a Red Flag Warning from noon Friday through six o’clock tonight, as open burning is strongly discouraged.
National Weather Service meteorologist Brooke Hagenhoff says there’s a critical risk of wildfires. It’s a dangerous combination of conditions, Hagenhoff says, with warm temperatures in the 50s and 60s, very dry grasses and other vegetation, and wind gusts that may exceed 50 miles an hour.
The warning covers 91 of Iowa’s 99 counties, all but the far northeastern corner of the state. The state Fire Marshal’s office shows active burn bans in only five counties, Mills County in the southwest, and four in eastern Iowa: Clinton, Linn, Muscatine and Scott.
