More than 50 large range fires have burned at least 93,000 acres of state and private land this year, according to preliminary numbers from the Wyoming State Forestry Division. The tally released Monday includes fires the division helped battle across the state, most of which occurred over the summer. It does not include most large fires in national parks and forests in Wyoming that were handled by federal agencies. Weston and Niobrara counties saw single lightning storms start more than a dozen fires at a time, he said. The State Forestry Division is still compiling the number of fires, acres and costs of the fires that it was involved in this year. It won't have final numbers until the end of the year. The agency's running total on its costs for fighting fires this year is about $8.7 million.
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