It didn’t take long for all the lushness created from a stream of April showers to turn crackly brown as a drought that started in the southern part of Florida has crept northward.
Alachua and Gilchrist counties have burn bans in effect to try to keep yard debris or brush burning from starting a wildfire.
The Florida Forest Service fire danger index for Friday had Alachua and most neighboring counties classified as very high. Marion County was rated high.
The Keetch-Byram Drought Index, a continuous reference scale for estimating the dryness of the soil and duff layers, has been rising.
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