Overview

• The Dragon Bravo Fire covers about 71,000 acres on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim with containment reduced to 9 percent as record-dry air and gusty winds fuel its spread.
• Monday’s record low humidity readings and wind gusts over 25 mph prevented infrared mapping and led to a surge of nearly 30,000 acres in three days.
• Approximately 100 structures have burned, including the 1937 Grand Canyon Lodge, triggering seasonal closure of the North Rim entrance and evacuation of around 1,000 people.
• Multiagency crews are conducting full suppression operations, reinforcing containment lines around Kaibab Lodge, an Apache trout refuge and a bison herd in House Rock Valley.
• Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have secured agreement on an independent federal review of the Park Service’s initial vegetation-clearing management strategy.