Driving the news: Six major fires were spreading around the state as of Tuesday, with winds and lightning expected to cause even more.
Threat level:As forecasters feared, hot weather has dried up a lot of new vegetation that grew during Utah's last two winters of heavy snow.
With thunderstorms in the forecast, fire danger was rated "very high" in northwest and southwest Utah, with "high" danger throughout the central part of the state.
The latest: Gov. Spencer Cox has called on Utahns to once again pray for rain after fires forced evacuations near Cedar City.
Between the lines: So far this year, humans have started the vast majority of the state's wildfires, state fire officials posted Tuesday.
Those fires have burned more acres than all of last year's wildfires combined, KUER reported.
How it works: Fire investigators typically label a fire "human-caused" if natural causes like lightning can be ruled out, but it's sometimes difficult to isolate the specific activity that sparked a given fire.
Common sources include campfires, fireworks, cigarettes, and heat from vehicles.
