Central Indiana under enhanced risk for wild fire - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

The National Weather Service has placed much of central Indiana under an enhanced risk of wild fire Tuesday.

The NWS says conditions will be more favorable for fire growth than they have been recently as humidity falls to near 30 percent. Winds will be 10 to 15 mph. Conditions will not become extreme enough for a red flag warning for wild fire.

The following counties are under enhanced risk for wild fire:

CARROLL-WARREN-TIPPECANOE-CLINTON-HOWARD-FOUNTAIN-MONTGOMERY-BOONE-TIPTON-HAMILTON-MADISON-DELAWARE-RANDOLPH-VERMILLION-PARKE-PUTNAM-HENDRICKS-MARION-HANCOCK-HENRY-VIGO-CLAY-OWEN-MORGAN-JOHNSON-SHELBY-RUSH-SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-KNOX-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS

This includes the cities of Indianapolis, Lafayette, Frankfort, Kokomo, Crawfordsville, Anderson, Muncie, Terre Haute, Shelbyville, Bloomington, Columbus, Vincennes, Bedford and Seymour.

Meantime, Tippecanoe County is under a voluntary burn ban until further notice due to the dry weather conditions per Fire Associaton President and Wabash FD Deputy Chief, Jim Lewis and Tippecanoe EMA director, William "Smokey" Anderson. The burn ban includes, but is not limited to open field burning, burning leaves/brush, bon fires, etc.

With the upcoming holiday, please also remember that letting off fireworks can and will easily start a fire; landing on the dry ground, up in trees, on rooftops, etc. With the dry (and, at times, windy) conditions, the fire will spread very rapidly.

A long stretch of sunny, warm weather is expected for the rest of the week.