Sentences with phrase «active wildfire season»
The better metrics are length of active wildfire season, which has increased by about 2 months in the western US in the last 40 years, and area burned, which has also doubled... Future projections indicate a dramatic increase in area burned.»
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The year was marked by exceptional drought in the U.S. Southeast and the West, which helped fuel another extremely active wildfire season.
The next mega-droughts and subsequent active wildfire seasons for the western U.S. might be predictable a full year in advance, extending well beyond the current seasonal forecast and helping segments of the economy related to agriculture, water management and forestry.
In fact, the most active wildfire seasons are often those that are hotter and drier than average.