{"id":8342,"date":"2026-02-09T19:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:58:24","slug":"a-few-hours-ago-a-big-fire-broke-out-in-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8342","title":{"rendered":"A few hours ago a big fire broke out in M\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-start=\"47\" data-end=\"88\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f9ef.svg\" alt=\"\ud83e\uddef\" \/>\u00a0Notable Bog\/Peat Fires in the U.S.<\/h3>\n<ol data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"652\">\n<li data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"232\">\n<p data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"232\"><strong data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"128\">Evans Road Wildfire, NC (2008):<\/strong>\u00a0Peat fire burned 41,000\u202facres in a wildlife refuge, hard to extinguish due to underground smoldering.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"233\" data-end=\"365\">\n<p data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"365\"><strong data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"281\">Minnesota Historical Fires (1890s\u20131900s):<\/strong>\u00a0Bog and forest conditions fueled major fires like the Great Hinckley Fire (1894).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"366\" data-end=\"459\">\n<p data-start=\"369\" data-end=\"459\"><strong data-start=\"369\" data-end=\"398\">Newberry, MI Fire (2007):<\/strong>\u00a0Wildfire in marshy, bog-like terrain burned ~18,500\u202facres.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"566\">\n<p data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"566\"><strong data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"497\">Okefenokee Swamp Fires, GA\/FL:<\/strong>\u00a0Peat soils burned intensely during droughts, e.g., West Mims Fire.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"567\" data-end=\"652\">\n<p data-start=\"570\" data-end=\"652\"><strong data-start=\"570\" data-end=\"600\">Bog Butte Fire, AZ (2025):<\/strong>\u00a0Named for the location, not a true peat bog fire.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u00a0Notable Bog\/Peat Fires in the U.S. Evans Road Wildfire, NC (2008):\u00a0Peat fire burned 41,000\u202facres in a wildlife refuge, hard to extinguish due to underground smoldering. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8342\" title=\"A few hours ago a big fire broke out in M\u2026\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8343,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions\/8343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}