Firefighters are battling multiple wildfires across California, as seen on this map from Tuesday, June 18, 2024.CalFire Windy conditions and an overall dip in humidity over parts of California combined to create the arid and blustery conditions that allow fires to rapidly spread, the National Weat...
Dr Marty Alexander, long time Canadian wildland fire researcher, has remindedWildfire Todayof the 1974 publication by Clive M. Countryman, “Can Southern California Wildland Conflagrations be Stopped?”. Countryman was at the time of writing a wildland fire behavior scientist with the USDA Forest ...
The landscape is changing, irrevocably and ineluctably, as winds ushered in the smoke of yet a new fire season to California in the Bay Area. Northern California has been long defined by its fire seasons, as well by its winter rains, but the seasonality of fires has so expanded that the...
2021 (left) and one year later on June 7, 2022 (right) as the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon fire was active. The spectral bands of the images have been adjusted to highlight the change in vegetation before and after the fire. Even though it is not true color, green still indicates health...
Multiple fires are raging throughout California, forcing evacuations and leaving a destructive path. The Camp fire in Northern California’s Butte County has killed at least 86, and three are still missing. It’s the deadliest fire in state history. The Woo...
The Valley fire in Northern California is spread over an area this size The Valley fire in Northern California has burned more than 60,000 acres, about 94 square miles. For comparison, here is what 60,000 acres looks like on an interactive map. ...
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. ...
Information about contemporary fire regimes across the Sky Island mountain ranges of the Madrean Archipelago Ecoregion in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico can provide insight into how historical fire management and land use have influen
Fire is an integral process to numerous cultural and ecological communities across BCs ~ 94 million hectares. Broadly across BC, major ecosystem types adapted to fire include northern boreal forests that sustain moderately frequent crown fire (100-150 year mean interval), interior sub-boreal to...
in northern Honshu, rising directly from the seashore with its summit only 10 miles inland and receiving massive snowfalls Bandaisan (Mount Bandai) 5968 ft / 1819 m Urabandai Live Camera[translate](2700 ft) Nice view of Bandaisan from Urabandai, 5 miles north; ...