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- Climate change is driving the scale and impact of recent wildfires that have raged in California, say scientists. Their analysis finds an "unequivocal and pervasive" role for global heating in boosting the conditions for fire. California now has greater exposure to fire risks than before humans started altering the climate, the authors say.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54278988Global warming driving California wildfire trends - study - BBC
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Jul 12, 2023 · Fire behaves differently depending on geography, weather and vegetation. The reasons fires intensify in forested, mountainous places are different than in coastal shrubland. Human land use plays a major role, with development in fire-prone areas increasing ignition sources and the threat to property and lives.
Oct 4, 2021 · Two recent incidents—the Dixie fire (2021, above) and the August fire complex (2020)—stand out for their size. Each of these burned nearly 1 million acres—an area larger than Rhode Island—as they raged for months in forests in Northern California.
The 2021 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the U.S. state of California. By the end of 2021 a total of 8,835 fires were recorded, burning 2,568,948 acres (1,039,616 ha) across the state. [1]
NameCountyAcresStart DateOwens1,512May 1Southern5,366May 21,202May 14Sargents1,100May 30The 2021 wildfire season in California experienced an unusually early start amid an ongoing drought and historically low rainfall and reservoir levels. In January 2021 alone, 297 fires burned 1,171 acres on nonfederal land, which is almost triple the number of fires and more than 20 times the acreage of the five-year average for January.
IncidentCountiesStartedAcresButte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama7/13/2021963,309Trinity7/30/2021223,124El Dorado, Alpine, Amador8/14/2021221,835Siskiyou, Trinity7/30/2021199,359Results. During 2020 and 2021, 19,090 km 2 burned in California, of which 84% (16,069 km 2) burned in the Western Cordillera (Fig. 1). These 2 y account for 58% of the area in California that burned from 2012 to 2021, and in each year, the total area burned was >10× greater than the historical average from 1878 to 2011.
Sep 23, 2021 · According to Cal Fire, 7,595 wildfires have burned more than 3,600 square miles – an area larger than the state of Delaware – in California so far in 2021 through Sept. 19. That's...
Jul 16, 2021 · Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires? There are four key ingredients to the disastrous wildfire seasons in the West, and climate change is a key culprit. Share full article
