TheCalifornia Fire Observatorycombines longer-term data about forest cover with up-to-date information about wildfire hotspots and wind speed. “We map the drivers of wildfire hazard across the state—including forest structure, weather, topography & infrastructure—from space. […] By providing these...
REDDING, Calif. (AP) — How many roads are enough to get out? That's the question we wondered after watching tragedy unfold in Paradise, California, last year during the Camp Fire.
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Rancho Palos Verdes holds a dubious honor: It’s the most populated city in California to have 90 percent or more of its population living within a “very high fire hazard severity zone.” But few residents seem to think their suburb is in the same league as Malibu, where hundreds of ...
Three interviewees from adopting cities stated they had no choice in map adoption. One explained, “We chose to follow the law.” Another said, “There was no adoption of fire hazard severity zone maps for Local Responsibility Areas.” Interviewees described a process of receiving maps from ...
Describing the brushfire hazard in Southern California - Yool, Eckhardt, et al. - 1985 () Citation Context ...mate, the warm, seasonal Santa Ana winds, and the fact that the predominant vegetation is highly flammable chaparral combine to make Southern California one of the most fire-prone ...
The Camp Fire had burned almost 7,200 structures as of Monday evening, most of them homes -- meaning the Northern California wildfire is also the most destructive in state history. Some 15,000 more structures were threatened. It had chewed up some 117,000 acres. ...
Fire Boundaries from the USGS Post Wildfire Debris Flow Hazard Assessment Viewer Storms Causing Post-Wildfire Debris Flows A mid-latitude cyclone and atmospheric river impact Central California on 27 January 2021. The narrow cold frontal rainband in this storm triggered post-fire debris flows on the...
Map USA (Environmental Systems Research Institute); the population data are from 2017 LandScan data (https://landscan.ornl.gov/downloads/2017); wildland fire information is from the National Interagency Fire Center (National Large Incident Year-to-Date Report 2018), CAL FIRE (https://www.fire...
Understanding pre-1850s fire history and its effect on forest structure can provide insights useful for fire managers in developing plans to moderate fire hazards in the face of forecasted climate change. While climate clearly plays a substantial role in California wildfires, traditional use of fire...