Fire season may be a reality in many places around the country. But the threat is spreading to areas once relatively unscathed by wildfires, a new study suggests.
in some parts of the United States — and that in the 2000s, wildfires grew up to four times the size of fires in previous decades., a federal interagency program that tracks burn severity over time in the United States. The data spans from 1984 to 2018 and covers more than 28,000 fires over 1,000 acres in size in the West and 500 acres in size in the East.Since 2005, the analysis shows, fire frequency grew nationwide.
Americans need to “rethink our priorities,” the researchers write, participating in a challenging and ongoing conversation about how to address the changing fire outlook. But for now, the outlook is grim, says William Travis, deputy director of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Earth Lab and a co-author of the paper. “U.S. fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s
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