Just before his briefing, Trump was asked by a reporter what role climate change was playing in the fires. “Well, I think this is more of a management situation. If you look at other countries, if you go to other countries in Europe, Austria, Finland … they’re forest nations. They...
This year’s 33,953 fires had burned about 2 million acres as of Tuesday, surpassing the previous year’s tallies for the same period, according to thefire center. While this represents the largest number of fires as of July 13 in any year since 2011 (which saw 39,888 blazes), the to...
historical firesCalifornia in the year 2020 experienced a record breaking number of large fires. Here, we place this and other recent years in a historical context by examining records of large fire events in the state back to 1860. Since drought is commonly associated with large fire events, ...
California in the year 2020 experienced a record breaking number of large fires. Here, we place this and other recent years in a historical context by examining records of large fire events in the state back to 1860. Since drought is commonly associated with large fire events, we investigated...
“We are experiencing fires, the likes of which we haven’t seen in many, many years,” Governor Gavin Newsom said during a press conference on Wednesday, Julia Wick reports for theLos Angeles Times. “This fire season has been very active and, not surprisingly, that activity has taken ...
Spot fires burn on a hillside caused by a lightning strike along Marsh Creek Road in Brentwood, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. California firefighters battled destructive wildfires Monday as a lengthening heat wave roasted the state. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group via AP) ...
In Napa County, there were 288 customers whose power had been intentionally cut as a public safety power shutoff while the rest were caused by fires. Cellar worker Jose Juan Perez extinguishes hotspots at Castello di Amorosa, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, in Calistoga, Calif., which was damaged ...
had been documented. Now, they’ve become more common: In 2018, theCamp Fireburned 153,336 acres, and theMendocino Complex Fire, a pair of wildfires, burned a combined 459,123 acres. By the middle of the century, the average size of fires in the West could double or even increase six...
In 2020, over 9,900 fires burned over 4.2 million acres (around 1.7 million hectares), more than 4 percent of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land (around 40.5 million hectares), making it the largest wildfire season recorded in California's modern history. A total of 33 people...
Rebuilding California: Construction Workers Prove Essential in Times of Crisis Despite the many beautiful parts of our Golden State, California residents live with the increasingly harsh realities of fire season. In 2020, the state experienced 9,121 fires, totaling a loss of 4,133,520 acres in ...