“Nearby, litter on the forest floor in the woods that ring the Valles Caldera at its driest had just 1 percent fuel moisture.
“For comparison, the kiln-dried two-by-fours you buy at Home Depot measure 12 percent.”
Bob Parmenter, chief scientist at the Valles Caldera National Preserve, in an article on the drought by the Albuquerque Journal‘s John Fleck, Driest Season Recorded Stokes Fire Conditions [subscription or watching ad required].