Adirondack Forest Fires and, on average, March is the Cruelest Month
Channel: Hike Long Lake
Date: 2023-04-13

We humans are generally bad at estimating the likelihood of uncommon events. For me, It took only two years with warmer than average March temperatures to set an expectation about when spring should start. That same sort of optimism clouds our thinking about more serious subjects like the risk of forest fires.