showing a century of California wildfires, simplified into zones of 100 square miles. The map measures the cumulative burn area for each zone over that entire time: this can exceed 100 or even 200 percent if large fires are frequent enough, or the whole damn area burns down more than once...
Thursday night, Gov. Abbott granted temporary waivers to state regulations to assist in wildfire response. Feb 29, 2024 Map and satellite images show where fires are burning in Texas and Oklahoma A map shows the Texas fires located throughout the Lone Star State's rural Panhandle area with som...
But not all incidents are easy to map. Aug 1, 2024 Park Fire containment inches up; numerous evacuation orders and warnings still in place All evacuations for the Park Fire have been lifted in Butte County as firefighters continue to fight the fire in eastern Tehama County, where they...
While increasing fuel aridity and fuel loading led to a rise in area burned for wildfires under all scenarios (i.e., suppression or not), fires under the regressive suppression scenarios displayed higher sensitivity to increasing fuel aridity and fuel loading (Fig. 3). Across the gradient of...
4a, and the organizational collaboration map is shown in Fig. 4b. The results of the study indicate that forest wildfire research is characterized by a large scale and wide scope, involving more than 100 countries and more than 2342 research institutions. At the national scale, the countries ...
Last December, a farmer was burning dry grapevines in his vineyard in Deir Mar Moussa, a hill town a dozen miles east of Beirut known for its 18th century monastery and stands of pine forest. Usually this would be dangerous, … Australia Braces for Worsening Bushfires as National Park Burns...
“In addition to that, we have a very unstable air mass over the Lake Fire that’s going to allow for a pyrocumulus (cloud) development later today so that will create extreme fire behavior,” meteorologist Matt Mehle said. Record-breaking heat is possible through the weekend, with triple-...
The fire is burning in an area of grass and oak woodlands that hasnot experienced a large firesince 2003, CalFire said. Map shows spread of the Aero Fire in Calaveras County, California, on June 18, 2024.CalFire CalFire said 945 personnel with 114 engines and other equipment were involved...
A celebrated 132-year-old Gold Rush-era wooden footbridge in Butte County is among the losses from a devastating Northern California wildfire. The San Francisco Chroniclereports that the 238-foot Honey Run Covered Bridge near Chico was leveled in the in the fire that ripped through the ...
For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.