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Arizona 2020 Wildfire Season Worst In Nearly A Decade

Arizona is coming off one of its worst wildfire seasons in nearly a decade.

The Arizona Department of Forestry reports nearly a million acres burned last year, many of them in the central part of the state.

Investigators say that more than 80% of those fires were human caused.

A poor monsoon made a dry summer worse and pushed fire season into the fall.

Although last year was bad, more than a million acres burned in 2011.

Ron Dungan was a senior field correspondent at KJZZ from 2020 to 2024.