Yarnell Hill Fire Map - This map shows the destroyed acreage due to the Yarnell Hill Fire. This relatively small fire cost millions of dollars in damages to the Arizona Government and took the lives of 19 experienced wildfire firefighters. This small area represents the large costs associated wit...
The Sites Fire in Colusa County, in the northern Sacramento Valley, exploded in size to more than 19,000 acres in its first few days. It was 25% contained as of Friday.CBS Sacramento reportsevacuations were ordered Monday night. A map from CalFire shows the location of the Sites Fire, ...
ArcGIS Living Atlas of the Worldincludes authoritative content that helps you learn more about current and predicted smoke conditions and current air quality resulting from the Canadian fires. Follow these steps to make your own Canadian smoke, fire, and air quality map in a minute, maybe less. ...
The Creek Fire in Central California has scorched 175,893 acres and continues to burn out of control. The fire destroyed at least 361 structures and threatens over 14,000. The temperature is expected to return to seasonal averages with low humidity today. The Bobcat Fire in the Angeles Nation...
In any event, there are many communities that no one knows about, except those homeowners, which cohere around a specific endeavor or philosophy that might also be targeted by the government. If there is one state in the USA that has had this type of living arrangement going on for many ...
“lightning siege” over the past ten days has resulted in over 13,000 lightning strikes, many of which were from high-based thunderstorms that did not provide much rain to the surface (rain evaporated on the way down!).How unusual was this large number of lightning strikes in mid-August?
Inset illustrates location in California, USA Wind-dominated fires The fires considered here are driven by synoptic weather conditions producing foehn winds in the western part of California, from north of San Francisco to San Diego in the south; known in the northern part of the state as North...
Forest wildfires are a common natural disaster, occurring almost hourly in different forests around the globe, and are the major disturbances to forest ecosystems (Phillips et al.2022). In the USA, from 2012 to 2021, an average of 7.4 million acres of land per year affected by about 61,289...
A map from CalFire shows the location of the Sites Fire, in Colusa County, as of Tuesday, June 18, 2024.CalFire "Several structures are threatened, evacuations are ongoing," Cal Fire reported. "The fire is burning in a remote area and with the high winds on Monday, it had been diff...
In addition, another interesting observation is that the trend of the number of fires and the trend of burnt areas are not always of the same direction or magnitude. Figure 1. The evolution of wildfires in USA (1926–1970 and 1983–2021). Data before 1980 are impacted by larger uncertainty...