Sentences with phrase «large wildfires»

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.

During this time, the years with the hottest spring and summer temperatures were typically the years with the most large wildfires.

Such large wildfires will become more likely in many areas because of climate change.

Yet even within the past 20 or 30 years, rising temperatures have led to increasingly large wildfires.

The annual number of large wildfires has increased by more than 75 percent.

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.

Number of large wildfires on forested federal lands in the Northern Rockies region, including western Montana.

In recent years, Alaska has had to content with large wildfires, melting permafrost, and reduced sea ice, among other climate - related challenges.

Overall, the West is seeing trends toward more large wildfires burning more acres with longer fire seasons.

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

The Thomas Fire near Santa Barbara ripped across 280,000 acres, making it the state's largest wildfire ever.

Dennison, P. E., Brewer, S. C., Arnold, J. D. & Moritz, M. A. Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984 — 2011.

A team of New York state employees and volunteers has returned after spending nearly two weeks battling large wildfires in California, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday.

There are now three times more large wildfires burning across the West each year than in the 1970s.

Nearly two dozen large wildfires are burning across Texas.

Like smoke from suburban fires in the San Francisco Bay Area, that from large wildfires in the forest of this 600 - mile mountain range can travel into the Central Valley.

«A striking implication of very large wildfires is that a severe fire season lasting only one or two months can release as much carbon as the annual emissions from the entire transportation or energy sector of an individual state,» they write in a paper in Carbon Balance and Management.

In forests, periodic insect epidemics kill trees over large regions, providing dead, desiccated fuels for large wildfires.

Many large wildfires during California's 2016 season were exacerbated by dried out fuels and record - breaking temperatures, including the record - breaking Soberanes Fire.

The seventh largest wildfire in state history started on Brookhaven National Laboratory's Upton property and, fueled by strong winds and dry tinder on the forest floor, quickly spread south and east into the Riverhead Town section of Manorville.

It has not been mentioned here that the Russian government would send fire - fighting aircrafts to help Israel fight large wildfires.

Large wildfires fed by dry vegetation scorched the West Coast.

This image was created with data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Project that the authors of a new study used to measure large wildfires in the western United States.

California's 2017 wildfire season is poised to shatter records as the 155,000 - acre Thomas Fire in Ventura County continued to grow over the weekend, placing it among the state's 20 largest wildfires dating to the 1930s, according to a database maintained by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire).

In particular, extreme weather events that lead to habitat destruction and large wildfires provide ideal conditions for invasive predators like feral cats and red foxes to move in and decimate native fauna.

Because climate plays such a critical role in leading to wildfires, researchers have learned to ferret out and combine certain weather metrics as indicators that a potentially large wildfire season is looming on the horizon.

Historical wildfire observations exhibit an abrupt transition in the mid-1980s from a regime of infrequent large wildfires of short (average of 1 week) duration to one with much more frequent and longer burning (5 weeks) fires.

December 13, 2017 • The Thomas Fire, the fifth largest wildfire in California history, is a harbinger of things to come in the West.

In Colorado, the High Park Fire that sparked over the weekend has quickly grown to the second largest wildfire in that state's history.

Wildfire season is generally defined as the time period between the year's first and last large wildfires.

Medieval warming initiated exceptionally large wildfire outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains.

Traditionally Aboriginal land managers would burn much of the country in the early dry season, thereby creating firebreaks which would prevent large wildfires in the late dry season.

And according to data compiled by the nonprofit group Climate Nexus, 14 of California's 20 largest wildfires on record have occurred since 2000.

Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984 — 2011.

A team of New York state employees and volunteers has returned after spending nearly two weeks battling large wildfires in California.

It isn't uncommon for smoke from large wildfires to be lofted high enough into the atmosphere that winds push plumes of it all the way across the Pacific Ocean to the United States.

For most large wildfires, for example, the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho, coordinates response efforts with a variety of agencies such as the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, state land agencies, private landowners, and municipal or county agencies.

The hot and dry conditions led to many very large wildfires, in particular in Portugal (390,000 ha: Fink et al., 2004; see also Chapter 4 Box 4.1).

The average number of large wildfires burning across the Western U.S. each year has tripled from the 1970s to the 2010s.

They include soaring temperatures, declining late - season snowpack, northward - shifted winter storm tracks, increasing precipitation intensity, the worst drought since measurements began, steep declines in Colorado River reservoir storage, widespread vegetation mortality, and sharp increases in the frequency of large wildfires.

[10] At 151,623 acres, the Rough Fire of 2015 became the thirteenth largest in terms of overall acres burned, and it was also the thirteenth fire since 2000 to rank among California's top 20 largest wildfires in records dating back to 1932.

Miraculously, the property was unscathed following devastating mudslides and the largest wildfire in California's history, which hit the area in December.

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

(This map doesn't include the Thomas Fire, the single - largest wildfire in California history, which is still burning.)

When Jennifer Torrey arrived at a large wildfire - victim center in Santa Rosa during the October wildfires, the catering chef was tasked with turning meals for 2,000 people three times a day while working 16 - hour shifts.

Months after taking a shot from Hurricane Irma, Big Pine Key is again in recovery mode after a large wildfire scorched acres of land.

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«The Manorville area was hit by two large wildfires in April, one of which destroyed homes and displaced residents,» said Legislator Romaine.