Since the start of 2020, wildfires in California have burned over 3.2 million acres of land – an area almost the size of Connecticut. CalFire said Mondaythat nearly 16,500 firefighters have been battling 28 major wildfires in the state, which have left 24 people dead and over 4,200 struct...
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To put these recent fires in a historical context, we have investigated the history of large wildfires in California. “Large” fires is an arbitrary designation, e.g., Nagy et al. (2018) considered it to be 1000 ha or more. Our focus, however, is on those fires that made 2020 par...
Maxar's WorldView-3 satellite is equipped with a shortwave infrared sensor that penetrates the smoke and lets users detect active fires, hot spots and accurately map and measure burn areas including the LNU Lightning Complex wildfires, the CZU Lightning Complex wildfires, the SCU Lightning Complex ...
Nearly 4 million acres have burned in California so far this year as the state enters the most dangerous month of fire season on Thursday amid ongoing wildfires that may be fanned by more treacherous weather in the days ahead.
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IF people were not around to increase atmospheric gasses, introduce flammable grass where there was inflammable grass before or have the audacity to build a home in a beautiful place, there would be no problem with lightening strikes and wildfires. ...
map the burned area precisely, a comparison of our year-end fire objects for 2018 to the FRAP database does provide a partial validation of the ability of our algorithm to accurately classify the size and shape of large wildfires. Note that the fires from FRAP and our fire objects do not...
Wildfires in 2020 ravaged California to set the annual record of area burned to date. Clusters of wildfires in Northern California surrounded the Bay Area covering the skies with smoke and raising the air pollutant concentrations to hazardous levels. This study uses the Fire Inventory from the Nati...
“megafires,” or fires greater than 100,000 acres, 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...