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California's wildfire season has lengthened


California's wildfire season is expanding as the wet season shrinks

That means the dry season is extending longer into September, October and November, at the same time when Santa Ana winds, or systems that bring ...

Spatial and temporal pattern of wildfires in California from 2000 to ...

The wildfire season has lengthened and the peak months have been advanced from August to July. In terms of the variables related to the risk of ...

There's no more typical California wildfire season. It may be year ...

It may be year-round, experts warn. ... "You're getting longer periods of the year when you get these fires. We're literally burning the candle at ...

Satellite Data Record Shows Climate Change's Impact on Fires

Since the 1980s, the wildfire season has lengthened across a quarter ... California, fire has become nearly a year-round risk. The year ...

Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires? - The New York Times

There are four key ingredients to the disastrous wildfire seasons in the West, and climate change is a key culprit.

CA wildfires: Risk high in 2022 amid drought, climate change

“California continues to experience longer wildfire seasons as a direct result of climate change,” Cal Fire's official outlook statement for the ...

How climate change-driven wildfires are changing life in California

Hotter temperatures mean drier land. A parched atmosphere. It's that simple. In California, for instance, warm season days have increased by 2.5 ...

Human-triggered California wildfires more severe than natural blazes

California is no stranger to wildfires; in 2020 alone, over 4 million acres burned across the state, including the million-acre August Complex Fire. But what's ...

Wildfires and Climate Change - C2ES

Increased drought, and a longer fire season are boosting these increases in wildfire risk. For much of the U.S. West, projections show that an average annual 1 ...

This Is the New Normal: California and Constant Fire

Thanks to a combination of rising heat, longer droughts, and powerful winds, record-breaking wildfires are becoming the terrifying new ...

California wildfires explained: What to know in 2024 - CalMatters

When is California's wildfire season? It is now almost year-round. Nothing is as it was. Where are the worst California wildfires? All over ...

Longer, more extreme wildfire seasons

The study finds that autumn days with extreme fire weather have more than doubled in California since the early 1980s due to climate change.

A Shorter, Sharper Rainy Season Amplifies California Wildfire Risk

This observed lengthening of California's dry season through decreasing and delayed autumn precipitation has substantial implications for the ...

2021 California wildfires - Wikipedia

The long term trend is that wildfires in the state are increasing due ... The 2021 wildfire season was exceptionally severe in California, although it ...

Rising Global Temperatures Influence California's Fire Season

“Essentially all of the increase we've seen in annual wildfire area in California over the last 50 years is driven by warming in the atmosphere ...

Wildfire | USDA Climate Hubs

Since the 1970s, the wildfire season in western states has extended from 5 months to over 7 months in length. Since the 1980s, the annual number of large fires ...

California's Wildfire Season has Lengthened, and its Peak is Now ...

California's wildfire problem, fueled by a concurrence of climate change and a heightened risk of human-caused ignitions in once uninhabited ...

California's fire season may just now be taking off - ABC10

The months of September through December have proven to be among the most destructive months for wildfires.

2020 California wildfires - Wikipedia

The 2020 California wildfire season, part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season, was a record-setting year for wildfires in California.

'Weather Whiplash' Helped Drive This Year's California Wildfires

While there were 5,053 fires that burnt 253,755 acres by September 11 in 2023, by that date this year, about a thousand additional wildfires had ...