Predicting wildfire disasters presents a major challenge to the field of risk science, especially when fires propagate long distances through diverse fuel types and complex terrain. A good example is in the western US where large tracts of public lands routinely experience large fires that spread fro...
Oregon homeowners who live in certain areas at high risk of wildfire must now meet new building and so-called defensible space codes Associated PressJan. 7, 2025 Boeing Still Needs a Culture Change to Put Safety Above Profits, According to the Head of the FAA A year after a panel blew out...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Huge gaps between air quality sensors in the western U.S. have created blind spots in the warning system for wildfire smoke plumes sweeping North America this summer, amid growing concern over potential health impacts to millions of people exposed to the pollution. Gove...
Over recent decades, Western US wildfire activity has become increasingly intense, with many mountainous regions demonstrating increases in annual fire area burned14,15,16, annual fire area burned at high-severity14, the number of large wildfires16, wildfire emissions of aerosol17, and in some case...
About 1 in 3 people in the Western United States face a significant chance of wildfire exposure, according to a Washington Post analysis of data collected by First Street Foundation. Nearly 72 million homes nationwide face some wildfire risk this year - and the risk is even highe...
The next mega-droughts and subsequent active wildfire seasons for the western U.S. might be predictable a full year in advance, extending well beyond the current seasonal forecast and helping segments of the economy related to agriculture, water manageme
2025 los angeles county medical examiner's office confirms wildfire death toll rises to 16 the los angeles county medical examiner’s office says the confirmed death toll from the wildfires ravaging the area has risen to 16 associated press jan. 11, 2025 c...
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But Elizabeth Pickett, co-executive director of the Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, told the Honolulu Civil Beat that the tragedy was foreseeable. She said a report that she co-authored nearly a decade ago identified an increased wildfire risk to Maui, with Lahaina in an extreme risk are...
And among the nearly half a million Pennsylvanians of Puerto Rican descent, the remarks are “spreading like wildfire.” When Trump campaigns in Allentown on Tuesday, home to one the largest Puerto Rican populations in the state, some arethreatening to protest...