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The National Interagency Fire Center recently predicted that spring 2019 wildfire activity should be normal, due in part to melting snowpack throughout much of the United States.

However, the same fire experts said late summer wildfire activity could be especially severe in the west and southwest this year, according to data released on May 1, 2019 by the NIFC's Predictive Services division.

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