The Southwestern United States is already having a challenging wildfire season. Blazes around Sedona, AZ have been all over the news and threaten to do serious damage to major residential areas. Here in Southern Nevada, no less than 14 wildfires were ignited by lightning last week. Luckily, no Las Vegas homes were damaged, but you can’t miss the smoke hanging in the air in the distance. Statewide, over 140,000 acres have been set ablaze by lightning over the last 10 days. Residents of Las Vegas real estate are really very lucky, even this time of year. The fires in our part of the State tend to be from 15-50 miles outside of the metropolitan area and burn in essentially uninhabited sections of the raw desert. Triple digit heat combined with gusty winds give a lightning strike all it needs to make trouble. Many people in the scientific community are attributing the increase in southwestern wildfire activity to global warming, but who knows if that’s really the cause. In any event, at The Sterling Team at Red Rock Canyon Realty, our thoughts are with the brave and exhausted men and women that fight these fires both for a living and on a volunteer basis. What would we do without them?

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