Excessive heat index values are expected to reach 105 to 110 on Sunday, June 22. Residents are urged to be aware and take appropriate measures to avoid heat stroke.

As of June 13, the National Interagency Fire Center reports the Minnesota fires now cover about 30,000 acres:. Jenkins Creek Fire: 16,145 acres, 94% contained; Camp House Fire: 12,071 acres, 98% ...

Other major wildfires in Minnesota’s past were even bigger. The Great Hinckley fire of 1894 burned 350,000 acres and killed 418. The Cloquet-Moose Lake fires in 1918 burned 250,000 acres killed 453.