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As Western US Fires Get Ever Bigger


Fires in the West are becoming ever bigger, consuming. Why and ...

Experts say a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the western U.S. and Canada are the legacy of the ...

Wildfires in the West Aren't Just Getting Bigger. They're Faster, Too.

In recent decades, fast-growing blazes were responsible for an outsize share of fire-related devastation, scientists found using satellite data.

Fires in the West are bigger than ever. Why and what can be done?

Experts say a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the western U.S. and Canada are the legacy of the ...

Fires in the West are becoming ever bigger, consuming. Why and ...

Decades of snuffing out fires at the first sign of smoke combined with climate change have laid the groundwork for a massive wildfire in ...

Are Wildfires Increasing or Decreasing in the U.S.? | WFCA

As the temperatures increase, the moisture levels drop, creating conditions conducive to the ignition and spread of wildfires. Climate change also causes the ...

Why are there so many large fires in the Western U.S., but none in ...

Western areas also tend to be drier. Further east there are generally more roads and easier terrain, allowing firefighters to get to a fire ...

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 ...

Wildfire climate connection

A 2021 study supported by NOAA concluded that climate change has been the main driver of the increase in fire weather offsite link in the western United States.

Simultaneous large wildfires will increase in Western U.S. - News

“Higher temperatures and drier conditions will greatly increase the risk of simultaneous wildfires throughout the West,” said NCAR scientist ...

Climate Change Has Doubled Western U.S. Forest Fires, Says Study

“No matter how hard we try, the fires are going to keep getting bigger, and the reason is really clear,” said study coauthor Park Williams, a ...

Thousands battle Western US wildfires as smoke puts millions under ...

Wildfires across the western United States and Canada put millions of people under air quality alerts Sunday as thousands of firefighters ...

Six trends to know about fire season in the western U.S.

Research suggests that global warming is predicted to increase the number of very large fires (more than 50,000 acres) in the western United ...

California's Park Fire now among state's top 13 largest ever as it ...

The largest active wildfire in the US has scorched more than 280,000 acres in eastern Oregon and another blaze has exploded to more than 239,000 ...

Wildfire | USDA Climate Hubs

Increases in large fire activity and area burned have been driven by rising temperatures, reduced winter snowpack, earlier snowmelt, reduced summer ...

The Climate Connections of a Record Fire Year in the U.S. West

Another factor driving changes in U.S. Western wildfires is a greater availability of fuel. Drier air stresses vegetation, making forests more ...

How climate change supercharges wildfires in the West

Climate change has inexorably stacked the deck in favor of bigger and more intense fires across the American West over the past few decades, ...

How has the number of acres burned in western U.S. wildfires ...

There has been a small increase in the last 30 years, probably tied to a large growth in population and the large number of immigrants and ...

National Fire News | National Interagency Fire Center

While weather conditions in many states have turned cooler, wildland firefighters and support personnel are still working to contain 5 large wildfires have ...

The Age of Western Wildfires | Climate Central

According to the National Interagency Fire Center, with nearly two months still to go in the fire season, the total area already burned this ...

Wildfires in the United States 101: Context and Consequences

Areas burned in wildfires increased particularly sharply in the western United States, where the annual average area burned in large forest ...