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Kansas fire-stricken plains brace for rain and recovery
In Clark and Comanche counties, wildfires scorched thousands of acres, leaving farmers like Prose hopeful for rain to wash ash and restore soils. Experts warn one-hour fuels and dry winds produced active fire behavior, threatening wheat yields and forage grasses while forecasts suggest upcoming storm systems could ease drought in western Kansas.
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Prose
Scott City
Wichita Road
Clark
Comanche
Haskell
Reno
Finney
Lane
Gray
Clark County
Kansas Division of Emergency Management
Mary Knapp
Kansas
Department of Agronomy
K-State
Knapp
Ashland
Garden City
Healy
Lane County
Rockies
Walter Fick
K-State Research and Extension
Fick
Anderson Creek
Oklahoma
Mike Umscheid
National Weather Service
Dodge City
Umscheid
National
Colorado
Oklahoma Panhandle
Nebraska
Plains