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Southern California's Wildfire Threat Grows Worse as the Century ...


Southern California's Wildfire Threat Grows Worse as the Century ...

Southern California is prone to considerable wildfire activity and associated costs. New research combining observational data with ...

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MacDonald, GM and Dong, C. 2022. Southern California's Wildfire Threat Grows Worse as the Century Progresses. Nature Sustainability Community.

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Southern California's Wildfire Threat Grows Worse as the Century Progresses · Go to the profile of Glen MacDonald +1 · Glen MacDonald and 1 other. Feb 23, 2022 ...

Why are California's wildfires getting worse? Experts explain what ...

Human sources are responsible for more than 90% of ignitions, as development in fire-prone areas increases wildfire risk. ... century, some ...

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 ... growth of fire risk throughout the state. From 1920 to 1999, ...

California drought hits extreme levels, wildfire threat grows – GFMC

California will find little consolation in the fact that other states have it worse. ... Southern California's reservoirs reflect the geographical ...

Southern California faces a growing wildfire threat but remains ...

An ongoing drought, the worst in a century, has pushed 27 million people in southern Africa to the brink of starvation, with failed crops and ...

Study Finds Climate Change to Blame For Record-Breaking ...

Record-breaking forest fires during California's summer months have become a regular occurrence. Wildfires not only cause catastrophic ...

California wildfires are growing fastest in U.S., study finds

Mountainous regions of Southern California were found to have the largest increase in daily wildfire growth rates in the two-decade span.

Wildfires are getting worse globally. How California compares

Even the Arctic, previously all but immune to the threat, faces growing wildfire risk because of climate change and other factors, according ...

California's wildfire smoke and climate change: 4 things to know

California wildfires every year emit as much carbon as almost 2 million cars, posing a threat to efforts to battle climate change.

Climate change: Southern California's worst-case wildfire scenario

Why California can expect wildfire season to get worse ... Every time someone builds another house, the risk increases.” Many ...

'Loading the dice': climate crisis could increase southern California ...

... risk days compared with the late 20th century. “Things are going ... Their analysis shows that, as warming gets worse and temperatures ...

Summary of Projected Climate Change Impacts on California

Heat-Health Events (HHEs), which better predict risk to populations vulnerable to heat, will worsen drastically throughout the state. ... wildfire season recorded ...

Southern California high-risk wildfire days set to significantly ...

Recently published UCLA-led research suggests that the disparity between Northern and Southern California wildfire increases is set to ...

Twenty-first century California, USA, wildfires: fuel-dominated vs ...

The 2007 southern California wildfires: lessons in complexity. ... The Santa Ana wildfire threat index: methodology and operational ...

Why California wildfires are getting worse - CalMatters

The Maui inferno's death toll has surpassed the 85 killed in the Camp Fire to become the deadliest in the US in a century.

Climate change boosts California wildfire risk by 25%

Climate change has ratcheted up the risk of explosive wildfire growth in California by 25% and will continue to drive extreme fire behavior for decades to come.

Climate Change is Making Wildfires Worse — Here's How

From North Carolina to California, much of the United States is expected to face increased wildfire risk as rising greenhouse gas emissions ...

Climate change makes wildfires in California more explosive - NPR

During some of the worst hours in Camp Fire, which in 2018 burned the town of Paradise, California to the ground, the fire was growing so ...