Summer Fires, Take Two.(wildfires in California)(Brief article)Ordonez, Jennifer
The environmental pollution, property losses and casualties caused by wildfires in California are getting worse by the year. To minimize the interference of wildfires on economic and social development, and formulate targeted mitigation strategies, it is
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...
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We have witnessed some incredibly large fires in California in recent years, and so for the Dixie Fire to take the number one position is really saying something. And it is still out of control. As I write this article, the fire is“less than a quarter contained”… ...
In Central California, the fast-moving fire is being fuelled by hundreds of dead trees amid high temperatures and low humidity that are expected to last for several days. Residents of the rural area surrounded by rolling hills said they scrambled to evacuate with their animals as the wind-drive...
“By far the scale of destruction eclipses everything else that I've shot before,” Berger says. “The estimate right now is about 1,500 homes [destroyed]. I can't remember anything since I’ve been covering these in California that’s been like that.” ...
(Markandya et al.2008). Wildfires have been identified as an important contributing factor to the decline of the California condor,Gymnogyps californianusShaw, 1797 (Kelly et al.2015), so similar eventualities may apply to the recent fires in the area. Alternatively, predators that do remain ...
12,3,4. The societal and ecological impacts of fires5,6are in our collective consciousness—from Australia’s 2019–2020 megafires7, to destructive wildfires in the Mediterranean8, to beloved giant sequoias killed by fire in California98,10,11,12,13,14. We understand the broad drivers of in...
in California10and weekly to seasonal fire danger forecasts in the U.S.65. In comparison, FWI50is a more sophisticated system based on multiple fuel moisture codes and fire behavior indices, which are derived from meteorological variables including surface air temperature, relative humidity, wind, ...