Peat fires can smolder underground for months after surface flames die
Dried peat is carbon-rich fuel with little oxygen deep inside. Once ignited, fire can creep as a glowing seam beneath the surface long after visible flames are gone — for weeks or months in drained wetlands.
Those smolders belch haze, restart when winds rise, and are brutally hard to extinguish without flooding the ground again.
A peat fire is a slow climate bomb. What looks “out” on the map may still be burning under your feet.
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