- What Causes Wildfires?🔍
- The Great Fire of 1910🔍
- The Climate Change Link To More And Bigger Wildfires🔍
- Forest Fires and Climate Change🔍
- Smokehouse Creek Fire🔍
- Climate change helping drive an increase in large wildfires in the US🔍
- List of California wildfires🔍
- National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook🔍
Fires in the West Are Becoming Ever Bigger
What Causes Wildfires? | WFCA - Western Fire Chiefs Association
By prolonging droughts and driving higher temperatures, climate change makes it easier for wildfires to start and spread, whether through human activity or ...
The Great Fire of 1910 - USDA Forest Service
... large number of fires in North Idaho. It was one of the largest forest fires in American history. Maybe even one of the largest forest fire ever anywhere in ...
The Climate Change Link To More And Bigger Wildfires - NPR
At the same time, wildfires are burning more acres than ever before. The nine largest wildfire seasons since reliable records begin have ...
Forest Fires and Climate Change
[4] They found that our future looks “smoky” because climate change will worsen the three major factors that influence wildfire: having dry fuel to burn, ...
Smokehouse Creek Fire, second-largest in U.S. history, merges with ...
High temperatures and dry and windy conditions — all of which are expected to become a more frequent and intense problem as global temperatures ...
Climate change helping drive an increase in large wildfires in the US
Most of the western U.S. is projected to see the numbers of simultaneous fires of at 1,000 acres and greater that historically occurred once ...
List of California wildfires - Wikipedia
Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California are growing more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and ...
National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook
Long duration fires that have been on the landscape west of the Cascades most of the fire season, continued to be suppressed and were being ...
Park fire: California wildfire tears through 5,000 acres an hour - BBC
It is now the largest fire in the state this year, and the seventh largest ever recorded in California. It has consumed an area more than 1.5 ...
In the West, Lightning Grows as a Cause of Damaging Fires
In the West, wildfires caused by lightning have been growing bigger and occurring more frequently. With climate change, other parts of the ...
Wildfire Causes and Evaluations (U.S. National Park Service)
Nearly 85 percent* of wildland fires in the United States are caused by humans. Human-caused fires result from campfires left unattended, ...
The 1910 Fires - Forest History Society
Map of 1910 fires in the national forests of the western ... Official reports after the Big Blowup estimated that 1,736 total fires ... being. Ferdinand ...
Wildfires in the West: California's August Complex fire becomes ...
Wildfires in the West: California's August Complex fire becomes largest in state history; Gov. Kate Brown tours devastation in Oregon; ...
Why are California's wildfires getting worse? Experts explain what ...
Since 1980, fires have gotten significantly larger and more severe across California and the western United States, vastly increasing the amount ...
8News WRIC Richmond on X: "Fires in the West are becoming ever ...
Fires in the West are becoming ever bigger, consuming. Why and what can be done? Decades of snuffing out fires at the first sign of smoke ...
Wildfires are making their way east—where they could be much ...
We all know wildfires have been getting worse in the drought-stricken western ... history. In ... West, the risk to humans is much greater.
FACT SHEET: Climate change and wildfires in Canada
Canada experienced its most destructive wildfire season ever in 2023, with fires consuming 16.5 million hectares—more than double the ...
Notable impact of wildfires in the western United States on weather ...
In the western United States (WUS), large wildfires have become more frequent and have emerged as a significant threat to health, life, and property (1, 4).
Canada's record-breaking wildfires in 2023: A fiery wake-up call
Canada's 2023 wildfire season was the most destructive ever recorded. By the end of the year, more than 6,000 fires had torched a staggering 15 ...
Burning Hot: 50 Years of Fire Weather Across the United States
Climate change is affecting weather conditions in ways that increase wildfire risks. Warming temperatures and increasingly dry air, vegetation, ...