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2 days ago · Wildfire risk is the chance that a wildfire will start in or reach a particular area and the potential loss of human values if it does. Risk is dependent on variable factors such as human activities, weather patterns, availability of wildfire fuels, and the availability or lack of resources to suppress a fire.
2 days ago · The oldest evidence of wildfire in the world can be found in a laboratory on the fourth floor of a brick building in Waterville, Maine. To the untrained eye, it looks like a speck of black lint ...
5 days ago · Wildfires, made more severe by climate change, threaten areas beyond those in the West that have recently experienced catastrophic fires. This increasing exposure to wildfire risk puts utility finances in jeopardy and, in turn, impedes the construction of electric infrastructure needed for a transition to renewable energy.
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2 days ago · Large Fire 1. For statistical purposes, a fire burning more than a specified area of land e.g., 300 acres. 2. A fire burning with a size and intensity such that its behavior is determined by ...
5 days ago · Countering extreme wildfires with prescribed burning can be counterproductive. Renata Libonati argues in a World View article that megafires are here to stay, and that widespread prescribed burns ...
4 days ago · Nov. 13, 2023 — Wildfires and drought have led to $11.2 billion in damages to privately held timberland in California, Oregon and Washington over the past two decades, a new Oregon State ...
5 days ago · Prescribed burning can reduce wildfire damage. Low-intensity fires help clear out dead wood and vegetation, reducing the fuel available when a wildfire comes along. In 2020, the Cameron Peak Fire raged across more than 200,000 acres of Colorado. But the damage could have been more severe if not for how government agencies and landowners had ...
