Wildfires

The fire danger in Missouri has been elevated to a critical level on Friday and you are being asked to not burn anything anywhere.

If you don't understand the urgency of fire danger in Missouri, here's something for you to consider. The state of Missouri battled more than 80 wildfires in just the past 7 days alone.

It would appear that there's a fire burning where a fire shouldn't be burning at the moment with video showing a wildfire off of Interstate 57 near Tinley Park, Illinois.

The brush fire in Missouri was 600 acres when it began, but is now around 1500 acres in size.

Northeast Missouri and west-central Illinois have an elevated fire danger warning for Thursday.

There's a wildfire burning in Missouri now and a warning against burning from the state.

If you've been watching sunsets in Missouri the past couple days, you've likely noticed there's suddenly a hazy orange tint to it all. There's a reason for the quick change in how our skies appear.

We know that life can be dangerous. I will admit that I didn't know that Wisconsin was in so much jeopardy though until I saw 12 somewhat terrifying risk assessment maps from FEMA about potential natural disasters.

I'm not sure what you have planned today in Missouri, but there's one thing you need to avoid if at all possible and that's lighting a match.

In a year that has had pretty much every type of weather event already in Missouri, you can add wildfires to the list as there are reports that many are occurring right now in the Ozarks.