Sentences with phrase «experience larger wildfires»

Brazil, Indonesia, many parts of Africa and Canada typically experience larger wildfires (measured by area burned) than the United States on a yearly average.

Since 2000, many Western states have experienced the largest wildfires in their state's history.

[19][20] More than half the US Western states have experienced their largest wildfire on record since 2000.

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Santa Barbara and Ventura counties are currently experiencing one of the largest wildfires in California's history — the Thomas Fire.

Overall, the West has experienced a nearly fourfold increase in large wildfires in recent decades, leading to respiratory illnesses and other harm from fire - related air pollution.

Large regions of South America are also experiencing severe drying which is helping to increase wildfire risk.

According to a 2014 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO), the region experienced nearly four times as many wildfires larger than 1,000 acres between 1987 and 2003 than between 1970 and 1986.

Although the population has experienced large - scale wildfires before — persevering through the Rocky, Jerusalem and Valley fires in the past few years — the immediate danger in Northern California is proving to be a devastating event, leaving whole neighborhoods burned to the ground.