Drought-plagued California and the western U.S. may see another devastating wildfire season
The drought, which led to the most extreme wildfire season on record in California and Colorado last year, is now worse By Diana Leonard and Becky BolingerApril 10, 2021 at 7:57 a.m. MDT California and the West are falling deeper into drought and, with...
Wildfire Outlook: March 2021 – June 2021
March 4, 2021/0 Comments/in News, Weather, Wildfire impact /by John Mead Below are summaries from the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook, provided by the National Interagency Fire Center, for the period of March...
Study Shows California Rain Starting Later, Extending Fire Season
A brush fire spreads through a canyon in a residential neighborhood in Carlsbad in January. Courtesy OnScene.TV California’s rainy season now starts a month later than it did decades ago, prolonging the state’s destructive wildfire season, the American...
Billion-dollar natural disasters hit the U.S. a record 22 times in 2020
It’s time to make U.S. disaster policy more effective and equitable. [Photo: David McNew/Getty Images] The year 2020 broke disaster records across the country in destructive and expensive ways. The Atlantic had so many hurricanes, meteorologists ran out of...
Wildfire mitigation is important, but not a one-size-fits-all solution
BY ROY WRIGHT SPECIAL TO THE SACRAMENTO BEE A wildfire in Orange County’s Silverado Canyon, the Bond Fire, grows to 2,000 acres early on December 3, 2020 prompting a number of mandatory evacuation orders from the local fire authority. The blaze began with a house...
After Camp Fire, Paradise, CA, Works on Long-term Recovery
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA — NOV. 15, 2018 — An aerial view of Paradise off of Clark Road on Nov. 15, 2018. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Paradise, Calif., was almost completely destroyed by the Camp Fire in November 2018, but...
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