Anna Pope

And so those numbers aren't out yet.

We'll get estimates, you know, as the fires die down and as people do damage assessments later on.

But right now, I think just a lot of people are...

waiting for these fires to burn.

We did get a cold front through yesterday, which is great because that means, yeah, so that means like there'll be lighter winds and there's a little more relative humidity.

Yeah, I mean, since I was brought on at KOSU in 2023, and I mean, in 2024, 2025, huge wildfire events in the state and really impactful, large fires, large, you know,

property damage things all it was really um just destructive and while the land will recover property doesn't like and so it's just difficult and Oklahoma I think I saw something somewhere where we're one of the most disaster-prone states in the nation um not only because of wildfires but also tornadoes uh ice storms floods you name it we got it situation yikes

Yeah, so it has a lot of people asking questions about, like, whether that will impact services or has impacted services.

I think last year at the beginning of 2025 when Doge was Dojin and you have a lot of different activities happening as far as –

When there was a lot of actions taken to reduce the federal workforce and a lot of people were trying to figure out what was going on.

I've been trying to follow this story.

I've done some reporting about the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

That's like the conservation arm of the USDA.

It's a really big deal here in Oklahoma.

We're home of the Dust Bowl.

It was birthed out of the Dust Bowl.

There you go.

Here recently, we recently got a, you know, Office of Inspector General report that showed those numbers.

I also filed some FOIA requests and got them back about more specific Oklahoma numbers because we were able to kind of, I was able to patch together numbers, but it wasn't like specific enough to my home state because people were really wondering if I'm going to go to my county office and talk to my farm service agency about

folks there?