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The AirNow Fire and Smoke Map provides information that you can use to help protect your health from wildfire smoke. Use this map to see: Current particle pollution air quality information for your location; Fire locations and smoke plumes; Smoke Forecast Outlooks, where available; and, Recommendations for actions to take to protect yourself ...
Apr 2, 2024 · A wildfire is an uncontrolled burn of vegetation, which includes the burning of forests, shrublands and grasslands, savannas, and croplands. Wildfires can be caused by human activity — such as arson, unattended fires, or the loss of control of planned burns — and natural causes, such as lightning.
Oct 19, 2023 · A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire that burns in the wildland vegetation, often in rural areas. Wildfires can burn in forests, grasslands, savannas, and other ecosystems, and have been doing so for hundreds of millions of years. They are not limited to a particular continent or environment.
Oct 13, 2023 · May 24, 2024. Seven large fires have burned 32,671 acres in seven states. Wildland firefighters and support personnel contained the Peg Leg and Wolf fires in Arizona yesterday. No new large fires were reported. So far in 2024, 14,946 wildfires have burned 1,896,612 acres.
Aug 22, 2022 · Updated May 27. As of Monday, there are five new large or notable fires currently burning near heavily populated areas or major landmarks across the Western United States. Fewer fires recently...
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Mar 1, 2024 · The Texas A&M Forest Service released a map showing all the wildfire activity from across the state in the past seven days. The 140 blazes have burned a combined 1,260,725 acres. 87d ago / 5:06...
A wildfire (or forest fire, bushfire) is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire (in Australia), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or veld fire.
