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Nevada weather coverage from desert heat to Sierra snow, storms, drought conditions, wildfire smoke, and forecasts for both ends of the state.
Clark and Washoe counties issued separate smoke advisories the same day, Sept. 16, but the closest fire feeding either one is still across the state line, and the nearest fire actually burning inside Nevada, 165 miles from Reno, is already 92% contained.
Nearly all of Nevada is under fire weather alerts through tonight, in a year that has already burned more acres nationally than any point in at least a decade, and one in five Hawk Fire damage claims filed so far have no insurance behind them at all.
Back to back daily records fell this week during Southern Nevada’s fourth extreme heat warning in a month, capping a summer that had piled up more 110 degree days in July than a typical year sees at all.
An extreme heat warning holds Las Vegas through Sunday night, and the two Clark County agencies that track heat deaths are telling two different stories about how bad this summer has been, one of them 46 deaths, the other 16, and neither updated in over three weeks.
