Several southwest Arkansas counties under extreme wildfire risk

SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS (KSLA) - Several Arkansas counties near the ArkLaTex are now in at extreme risk of wildfire danger.

Those counties are:

Miller
Hempstead
Nevada
Lafayette
Ouachita
Columbia
Union

The announcement was made by the Arkansas Forestry Division in a tweet:

Seven counties in the Southwest corner of the state have been upgraded to an EXTREME risk of wildfire danger.
These counties include

Miller
Hempstead
Nevada
Lafayette
Ouachita
Columbia
Union#ARwx #FireWX pic.twitter.com/6TH8IWJAE9
— Arkansas Forestry Division (@ARForestryDiv) October 12, 2022