Burn acreage numbers keep increasing for area counties and the Flint Hills in general.
The latest report from KS Flint Hills Smoke Management indicates over 15,000 acres burned across Lyon County as of March 30, well above the March 20 mark of over 4,400 acres.
Wabaunsee County now has the most acres burned areawide at over 32,000, followed by Greenwood County with over 24,000 acres burned.
Annual burn restrictions began last week and continue through April. They allow for controlled pasture burns, ceremonial fires and grilling but ban controlled burns of debris piles, crop residue and construction waste.
Just under 100,000 acres have been burned areawide so far this burn season, a sharp increase from the nearly 17,500 acres burned as of March 20. Across the Flint Hills of Kansas and Oklahoma, the total has passed 207,000 acres.
