Sentences with phrase «of acres burned»

The West was engulfed in flames this year, as millions of acres burned across California, Montana, Oregon, and elsewhere, adding up to the most expensive fire season on record.

In Alaska, the number of acres burned each season varies dramatically but accumulating evidence indicates that climate change is increasing the extent of fire and contributing to extreme events such as the 2015 Alaska fire season, when over 5.1 million acres burned, or the 2016 conflagration in Ft McMurray, Alberta.

Warm, dry conditions made Alaska's boreal forest a tinderbox last year as millions of acres burned in catastrophic wildfires.

Only 12 % of U.S. wildfires are ignited by natural causes, but these account for 52 % of the acres burned, so even a small climate change in lightning may have important consequences.

Only 12 % of U.S. wildfires are ignited by natural causes, but these account for 52 % of the acres burned [10], so even a small climate change in lightning flash rate has important consequences.

The 2016 wildfire season has barely begun and dozens of large wildfires have already raged through Western states, with hundreds of thousands of acres burned.

The number of acres burned has intensified.

Even if all the fires went out across the West tomorrow, this year would still rank as the seventh-most destructive wildfire season in terms of acres burned.

The 2016 wildfire season has barely begun and dozens of large wildfires have already raged through Western states, with hundreds of thousands of acres burned.

Not exact matches

It's an idea that the organizers have apparently been looking into, with a 4,000 acre property in Northern Nevada even identified as the ideal site for a permanent community where the Burning Man principles of «radical inclusion» and «gifting» could be the law of the land year - round.

Several large and as - yet uncontained wildfires have burned 1,500 homes and more than 53,000 acres in Napa County, as well as thousands of additional acres in Sonoma County — both of which comprise California's wine country.

Nearly two dozen wildfires spread through the counties of Napa, Sonoma, and six others last week, destroying an estimated 5,700 structures, and burning over 200,000 acres of land — a collective area roughly the size of New York City.

But it's not just size that matters — the average cost of fighting fires per acre burned is also much higher than it was a few decades ago.

The number of wildfires touching more than 50,000 acres has been increasing over the last 30 years, and the total acreage burned this decade is more than double the area burned in the 1990s.

Across the United States, more than 9.5 million acres have burned to date, making 2017 the second - worst year for fires in terms of area.

Man lights fire, fire burns millions of acres.

«The sound of ripping open a beer can is burned deep into most people's psyches,» says Gabriel Magliaro of Chicago's Half Acre Beer Company.

Cuomo made an unscheduled visit to Suffolk County after declaring a state of emergency due to wildfires that burned for 24 hours and swept thousands of acres.

About half a dozen fire departments and state rangers were called in to battle a fire that burned dozens of acres in St. Lawrence County.

Mr. Amper said the county should take «proactive» steps to reduce wildfires by burning roughly 1,000 acres over the course of the year in smaller fires to prevent massive fires from swelling out of control.

The Wildfire of 2012 burned more than 1,100 acres of the Pine Barrens in Manorville and Calverton last April 9.

The San Antonio River Authority plans for the first time to burn about 13 acres on the river's southern stretch as a means of habitat restoration and preservation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for Long Island's Suffolk County, where flames burned for more than 24 hours and swept through thousands of acres.

A little more than half of those acres, 5.1 million, burned in Alaska.

It was still smoldering yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management's Alaska Fire Service said, reporting that the wildfire has burned through 13,766 acres of military land.

Hundreds of thousands of acres of forest are burning in Oregon and Washington, forcing evacuations

WRI's data only extended to 2013, but last summer, millions more acres of forest burned in northern Canada amid a record - breaking heat wave (ClimateWire, July 16, 2014).

For ranchers who depend on wide expanses of open land for grazing, losing several thousand acres in a fast - burning range fire denies them use of that land not only for the rest of the year but also for up to three years after that, while the plants regrow.

They burned seven million acres of land and cost 1.6 billion dollars in damage.

After weeks of battling three massive wildfires, crews are expected this week to finally squelch blazes that have burned houses and millions of acres of forest in southern and eastern Arizona, driving thousands of residents from their homes.

The drought - fueled blaze was explosive, fast - moving and devastating, burning through 38,000 acres in the Santa Clarita Valley and forcing the evacuation of more than 10,000 homes.

Southern California fire conditions today are already bad as firefighters attempt to contain the Sand Fire and battle the Soberanes Fire, which has burned more than 27,000 acres south of Monterey since the fire started on July 22.

From the atmosphere's point of view, growing biomass to burn in a power plant and using the electricity to move a car avoids 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per acre, or 108 percent more emission offsets than ethanol.

Here is a list of the major wildfires in sky island ranges since 1994: Rattlesnake fire (Chiricahuas, 1994, 27,500 acres burned); Clark Peak fire (Pinalenos, 1996, 6,300 acres); Bullock fire (Catalinas, 2002, 30,000 acres); Aspen fire (Catalinas, 2003, 85,000 acres); Nuttall fire (Pinalenos, 2004, 29,000 acres); Florida fire (Santa Ritas, 2005, 23,000 acres).

And yesterday, the collapse of a coal ash pond in Tennessee buried 12 houses and 400 acres — a reminder of the 129 million tons of radioactive and / or toxic waste left over after coal burning produced in the U.S. each year.

The blaze, called the North fire, has been burning since July 17 and has affected almost 4,300 acres of land in and around the San Bernardino National Forest.

Surrounded by the Coconino National Forest, this northern Arizona town sat at the edge of the 2010 Schultz fire, which burned 15,000 acres.

An area near Acre, Brazil, shows the progression of forest to grazing land on a large cattle ranch: intact forest (left), forest being burned to make pasture (top), newly cleared forest (bottom) and grass ready to graze (right).

In 2010, another 17,000 acres of Patagonia burned, fueling an international reforestation effort.

This shift from cool to warm in the North Atlantic has already had an impact; this past year at least 89,000 individual fires burned 9.5 million acres in the western U.S. Worse yet, forest management practices that have increased the number of trees in western woods — as well as relatively wet preceding decades — have put in place an abundance of fuel for future fires.

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.

According to the Bureau of Land Management's National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), the 10 years since 2002 saw an annual average of nearly 71,000 WUI fires recorded and 1.9 million hectares (4.7 million acres) burned.

The 4,300 - acre Polk Power Station, 40 miles southeast of Tampa, burns coal using a state of the art low - emissions gasification process.

The EIS approves restoration work on over 586,000 acres of federal land, including thinning, prescribed burning and watershed maintenance.

Every year, thousands of acres of Madagascar's forests disappear due to illegal logging, mining and burning to clear space for crops.

Western Wildfires, California Firestorm: $ 18 Billion When: June 1 to Dec. 31, 2017 Deaths: 54 The damage: Wildfires burned more than 9.8 million acres of western U.S. territory in 2017, with cumulative costs triple that of last year's fire season.

The conflagration burned three million acres in just 36 hours, killing scores of firefighters and incinerating large swaths of nearby towns.

The total area these fires burned increased at a rate of nearly 90,000 acres a year — an area the size of Las Vegas, according to the study.

Two other large fires also continued to burn north of Los Angeles: the 15,600 - acre Creek Fire consuming the western portion of the Angeles National Forest near San Fernando, and the more than 6,000 - acre Rye Fire near Val Verde and the Interstate 5 corridor.

The lightning - sparked Castle Rock Fire burned nearly 50,000 acres in 2007 in the Sawtooth National Forest and adjacent state and private lands surrounding Ketchum, Idaho, in the Smoky Mountains region of the Rocky Mountain range.