The number of wildfires burning in Florida is climbing again. After a brief downward trend earlier in the week, the numbers have been climbing. Friday morning, April 4, there were 49 fires, up from 44 ...

"It will not take much to get a brush or grass fire to flare up and rapidly spread," one meteorologist told Newsweek.

As of the latest March 24 evening update, maps indicated that one fire in Polk County had hopped the Green River.

but there are six county-enacted burn bans in central and southwest Florida, according to the Florida Forest Service’s burn ...