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Keeping pace with 2020
- Chief Thom Porter of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said the acreage burned this year is keeping pace with 2020, the state’s worst wildfire season on record.
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Sep 17, 2020 · Wildfires are burning millions of acres in California, Oregon and other parts of the western US, devastating towns and blanketing communities in thick smoke.
- A New Measure of Success
- Key 2020 Wildfire Statistics
- Air Quality and Wildfires
- ‘We Can Do Something About This’
California is the most fire-prone state in the United States. For the past century the key measure of success among forest managers has been decreased burned area, but that needs to change, according to the study. Reducing burned area remains an important goal in ecosystems like chaparral and sagebrush in coastal, lowland and eastern California. In...
The authors summarized 2020’s burning conditions, burned area and fire sizes, fire weather, fuel moisture, fatalities, property damage, suppression cost data, vegetation types, fire history and other variables from public data sources. They found that fires in 2020 followed an accelerating, decadeslong trend of increased burn area, severity, size a...
More than half of Californians experienced unhealthy, and sometimes hazardous, air quality index levels for a month or more in 2020, the study reports. The state’s worst five days of air pollution in history all occurred in 2020, according to CalFire. Wildfire-driven air quality in August and September likely also caused 1,200 to 3,000 “excess” dea...
The study also assessed what drove fire severity patterns in 2020. Fire severity is a measure of the impact of burning on an ecosystem, measured in this study by losses in vegetation biomass. Overall, fire severity was best explained by fuel load-related variables, with dryness and wind also playing key roles. Longer-term drought — including its ef...
Apr 17, 2022 · We summarize the record-breaking 2020 wildfire season in California statistically, evaluate the drivers of high-severity burning in the 2020 fires and consider implications for fire and resource management.
Wildfires are burning millions of acres in California, Oregon and other parts of the western US, devastating towns and blanketing communities in thick smoke. Scientists say the region's...
Main conclusions: The 2020 fires were part of an accelerating decades- long trend of in-creasing burned area, fire size, fire severity and socio- ecological costs in California.
Jul 29, 2021 · In a year of superlatives, some statistics stand out for California’s 2020 fire year: Four million acres, 112 million tons of greenhouse gases, thousands of lightning strikes, 11 million gallons of fire retardant. And 31 lost lives.
