The Storm Prediction Center is best known for issuing convective watches and outlooks, but they also have a fire weather program and issue a fire weather outlook akin to the convective outlook. Their "Critical" risk threshold for fire weather was forecast over western Iowa on Thursday and such thresholds are somewhat rare for the state. The featured map presents an analysis of the yearly average number of days with such a risk threshold. Areas in white would indicate no such risk over the archive of the product valid for the location. Certainly the further west you go, the greater the chance of such fire weather risks as winds generally increase, humidity decreases and drier vegetation.

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