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Boundary Waters blaze could be sign of busy wildfire season in northeast Minnesota The last big fire to sweep through the Boundary Waters was the Pagami Creek Fire, which burned about 100,000 acres 10 years ago this September. There hasn t been another large-scale fire since. Written By: Dan Kraker / MPR News | 6:23 am, May 21, 2021 × Smoke billowed from the Bezhik Lake fire in the BWCAW Tuesday afternoon. Light rain, higher humidity levels and cooler temperatures Wednesday and Thursday have helped firefighter efforts to slow the 950-acre blaze that burned to the Moose Loop Road outside the BWCAW. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service)

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