Three wildfires have burned a combined over 30,000 acres in northern Minnesota, destroying buildings and prompting evacuations.

Chinook/TMX:: Footage from a helicopter shows fire retardant dropped onto the Jenkins Creek Fire:: This is one of three large fires spreading across Northern MinnesotaReuters independently verified the location of the video from the road layout,

Three wildfires in northern Minnesota, including the Camp House, Jenkins Creek and Munger Shaw fires, continue to cause damage.

Luckily with this go around in the short term we have cooler, wetter weather coming. Places like California will undoubtedly continue to see worsening fire seasons but bad years in Minnesota could become more frequent, even if they are still overall rare compared to the west.

DNR Forestry Director Patty Thielen called current weather and fire conditions "unprecedented," saying the number of fires so far in 2025 is 3 times the average.

The three major wildfires are among more than 1,000 fires so far this year, which is on track to exceed state averages.

The Camp House Fire has destroyed 144 structures, according to an update around 11 p.m. from St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay. The Jenkins Creek Fire had left a "couple structures destroyed and damaged," per Ramsay, though "the fire is too active in the area to check and get more details on those buildings that were lost."