We will be burning brush the next 4 days, but the area is in a pecan bottom where little wind gets through and where the ground is covered with green clover and still a lot of mud for the surrounding 20 acres. I still get nervous though.

The wind is also making it hard to harden off my plants.

Scott

I went to the OK Mesonet and looked at the OK FIRE screen and pulled up the Cookson station and your numbers there look pretty good for this time of year. Your ignition component is a little high, but so is everyone else's at this time of year.

At least you are not in a Fire Weather Watch or Red Flag area, so your risk of an out-of-control fire there is low. For what it is worth, our neighbor was burning brushpiles in an area similar to yours yesterday, and his didn't get out of control. It is the grassy pastures, esp. those with sand love grass, that tend to go crazy burning like mad when the wind is up and the humidity is down.

My county is not in a Red Flag Fire Warning area, but our humidity is plunging and it is pretty windy....not exactly enough to worry me, but enough that I don't go outside without the fire radio, and I do find myself watching the skies. You know what it is like here at this time of year. I'll be relieved when we make it to May.

Hardening off the plants is hard. Every day I try to strategically place my plants in the most sheltered area I can and the wind (and especially the hot wind) still gets to them. That's just one of the things we have to deal with in March....and even into April.

Good luck with your controlled burning this week.

Dawn