Spring time in the Rockies!

Anyone who lives in the Rocky Mountains, or particularly, the areas referred to as "High Desert" are familiar with the spring time weed burning ritual. Well, as it may be, it is time for the Rockies to burn!
I have an interesting situation where I live. I have a small drainage arroyo on the east side of my driveway, that floods with spring thaw runoff. Therefore, I prefer to either burn my weeds in January, before the thaw, or in the late fall. In either case, I have already done my burning. So that there will be no driveway floods.
On the other hand there are folks who like to wait until it gets a little warmer out. I can understand this too, cause I don't like the cold much myself. Although, spring time in the Rockies, does present it's own problems. Anyone who knows about life in the mountains, any mountains, they seem to create their own wind patterns, generally these patterns are predictable. Locally, we watch a peak known as Horsefly Mesa. You can expect daily afternoon winds, with gusts in the gale range, until all the snow has melted from Horsefly Mesa. This is well known here. You can set your watch by it!
Now lets do some basic math problems. I know, it was my favorite subject in school too! NOT! So here we have farmers and a weed burner setting ditches on fire, and known high afternoon winds. You do the math! And they wonder why the Western US is always burning!
Today at work I got an interesting phone call from my wife, who was heading home after work. She called to tell me that the road I usually drive home on was closed. Closed due to a wildfire. No further than a mile from my own home, one of the farmers I had previously mentioned, let his fire get out of hand. As of 5pm Mountain Time, it had already burned over 40 acres. This fire is within a mile of my home. Now, we are not currently in any eminent danger. We have not gotten the reverse 911 call to evacuate yet.
I'm going to use the term now, because my daughter just told me that the fire is growing, and growing closer. I had to check for myself, and she is correct. I still hold to the fact that we are relatively safe. Like I mentioned beforehand, I have already done my burning. Therefore, there isn't much fuel for a fire to feed on close to my house. There is however, fuel close to my garage. This is because my garage is set very close to the property line, and the neighbor hasn't burned yet. There are huge tracts of dead cat tails really close to my garage. That is also where I do my reloading. There could be a problem. I'll wait till the Sheriff tells us to move!