The NWS said northeast to east Santa Ana winds could reach up to 70 mph in mountain areas and up to 50 mph in coast and valley areas. A red flag warning will remain in effect until 3 p.m. Thursday for areas like the Santa Susana Mountains, the western San Gabriel Mountains and...
A red flag warning was in effect Wednesday for a portion of central California. The National Weather Service issuesred flag warningswhen the combined presence of warm temperatures, low humidity and strong winds fuel an elevated risk of fire danger. Smoke and haze conditions were also forecast for...
The closures, which went into effect on Monday evening, include the Stanislaus, Sierra, Sequoia, Inyo, Los Padres, Angeles, San Bernardino, and Cleveland National Forests. In addition, all developed Forest Service campgrounds and day use areas in California are closed to visitors, and all igni...
Fire suppression is the primary management response to wildfires in many areas globally. By removing less-extreme wildfires, this approach ensures that remaining wildfires burn under more extreme conditions. Here, we term this the “suppression bias” and use a simulation model to highlight how this...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The lights were back on Friday for most of the nearly 2 million Northern California residents who lost electricity when the state's largest utility switched it off this week in an effort to prevent wildfires.
California is in danger of not only losing that heritage but also the ecosystem patterns … that were maintained by anthropogenic fire". Thereafter there is a chapter on fire management and policy since European settlement, and a sequence of chapters considering fire management and their impacts on...
It is worth noting that agricultural fires, which involve burning agricultural wastes from e.g., sugar cane in South America, rice in Asia, or wheat stubble in temperate countries (south-central Chile), can affect vast areas. However, these fires are not included in our dataset (differently ...
National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) indices in burn prescriptions36,38, some of which consider large-diameter FM (e.g., energy release component). Recent work has also suggested that larger-diameter fuels can contribute to “mass fire” events41,47, suggesting they have a greater ...
Since November, this is the fifth PDS warning in the Los Angeles area, according to the NWS. A strong Santa Ana wind event is expected to occur in Southern California causing extreme fire danger.National Weather Service Los Angeles Weather officials predict the strongest winds will occur Monday ...
Since November, this is the fifth PDS warning in the Los Angeles area, according to the NWS. A strong Santa Ana wind event is expected to occur in Southern California causing extreme fire danger.National Weather Service Los Angeles Weather officials predict the strongest winds will occur Monday ...