Sentences with phrase «average number of fires»

Location can be a factor if you're living in a high crime area, or in an area that has seen an above average number of fires and other hazards.

Not exact matches

Rubin (2011, 21 — 22) estimated that the average number of rockets fired per fatality climbed from about 100 in 2002 up to 2,100 by 2008.

Though the number of fires has been fewer than the 10 - year average of wildfires, until this date, the extent of acreage that has been affected by the fires is significantly greater.

High confidence in the reliability of fire prediction is lacking today, even as Western drought and the effects of climate change drive up the total acres burned nationwide and also the average size of each fire, ballooning the number of on - call U.S. Forest Service firefighters and the total costs to battle the flames.

The number of fires and the area they cover are well below average for this time of year, according to the latest monthly report from the US National Interagency Coordination Center.

We found that the average number of large wildfires burning each year and the total area burning in these fires have both increased dramatically since the 1970s.

With the feature turned off, the Kindle Fire downloaded the desktop versions of three web pages (ESPN, LAPTOP, and NYTimes) in an average of 7 seconds, but that number jumped to 9.4 seconds with the acceleration enabled.

As long as you're firing and walking somewhere and not discharging your gun into the scenery, the sheer number of retro - styled enemies that are deployed means there's a better than average chance that you'll be packing enough heat to barely even have to worry about your energy levels.

This year in the US the number of tornadoes has been way below average, the amount of hurricane damage was way below average, and the number of forest fires has been way below average.

The average number of large fires burning each year on Forest Service land has increased at least 10-fold in the Northern Rocky Mountain states of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.

So far in 2011 (mid-June 2011), the number of U.S. wildland fires indicate an annual total near the average for the last 10 years.

Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), pp. 3, 56; Erik Shuster, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory, January 2009); «Nuclear Dips in 2008,» World Nuclear News, 29 May 2009; 1 megawatt of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from American Wind Energy Association, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); number of homes calculated using average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, and population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & Country QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

For comparison here is the same equation for a coal - fired power plant: Coal power project installed cost: $ 2,500 / kW (High end number — Some coal fired plants are built for $ 1,500 / kW) Typical life of a coal fired plant: 30 years Hours per year: 8,760 Average availability of coal - fired power plant: 88 % Total electricity production during plant life: 231,000 kWh / kW installed Value of electricity produced: $ 16,188 / kW installed Lifetime Cost of fuel = 231,000 x $ 0.006 = $ 1,388 / kW installed Net Value of total electricity produced during plant life: $ 14,800 / kW installed.