Wildfire Today - News and opinion about wildland fire
Nov 1, 2024 · The models estimated around 10,000 more people died from wildfire smoke in the 2010s compared with the 1960s. “Of the 46,401 (1960s) to 98,748 (2010s) annual fire PM 2.5 mortalities, 669 (1.2% ...
North Dakota wildfires trigger statewide emergency, evacuations
Oct 6, 2024 · North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum declared a statewide fire emergency as wildfires killed one person and triggered numerous evacuations.. The state’s forest service is fighting multiple fires mainly ...
PBS explains how fire whirls and fire tornados form
Sep 2, 2021 · He said the average size of a fire whirl is usually 33 to 100 feet, with rotational velocities of 22 to 67 MPH. But a fire tornado dominates the large scale fire dynamics. They lead to extreme ...
'Unprecedented' Wyoming wildfire expands evacuations
Hunter Bassler October 3, 2024 Evacuations, Wildfire. The Elk Fire burning throughout Wyoming’s Big Horn National Forest near the town of Dayton triggered evacuations late Tuesday night and ...
Recent Fires - Wildfire Today
Recent Articles. Wildfire suppressants dumped nearly a million pounds of toxic metals into the West U.S. Wildfires and smoke are becoming more deadly around the world, research shows
Radford Fire near Big Bear Lake in Southern California prompts ...
Sep 7, 2022 · The fire is south of the Snow Summit Ski area. Updated at 8:02 p.m. PDT Sept. 7, 2022. The Radford Fire at Big Bear Lake in Southern California was mapped at 1,052 acres at about 12:30 p.m. The ...
Researchers conduct detailed case study of the Camp Fire
Feb 11, 2021 · On a brisk November morning in 2018, a fire sparked in a remote stretch of canyon in Butte County, California, a region nestled against the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Fueled by ...
California’s ALERT camera network now publicly accessible
May 18, 2023 · Cal Fire and other agencies are using a network of over 1,000 cameras across California to track wildfires -- and now the public can access the network, too. FOX News reports thatthe University of ...
Report released for the prescribed fire that led to the Hermits Peak ...
Jun 23, 2022 · USFS photo. On April 22 the Hermits Peak Fire merged with the Calf Canyon Fire, another escaped prescribed fire on the Santa Fe National Forest. As of June 22 the blaze has burned more than ...
Idaho wildfire spreads toward isolated town, smoke restricts aircraft
Aug 26, 2024 · Wildfire quickly spreads toward isolated Idaho town, but massive smoke plumes restrict help from aircraft. The Wapiti Fire has burned 68,123 acres of the Boise National Forest in Idaho as of ...