Sentences with phrase «of destructive wildfires»

Not exact matches

It was unusual to have so many fires take off at the same time, fire officials said, though October has generally been the most destructive time of year for California wildfires.

But wildland fires are increasingly destructive and costly in terms of lives and property, requiring substantial investments in wildfire suppression.

The findings mark the first public reports by government authorities into what caused some of the dozens of blazes that erupted Oct. 8 and became the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history.

After a year of vine - killing frosts, hail, drought, and destructive wildfires in regions from across the globe, the wine industry has a lot to look forward to in 2018.

Warming temperatures and high precipitation levels contribute to destructive wildfires, extensive property damage and costly flooding, as was recently seen in northern California and in the aftermath of the rain and resulting flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

And the destructive power of nature was on full display during hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires that pay no heed to human life or property.

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.

On June 11, 2013, during the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history, Strader lost her home, the original site of National Mill Dog Rescue.

The Bastrop County Complex fire was the most destructive wildfire in Texas history, striking areas of Bastrop County in September and October 2011.

AVMA aids people and animals facing the destructive forces of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Western wildfires

Drawing parallels between Tomie — a Japanese horror manga with an infinitely regenerative femme fatale as its protagonist — and Pando — a prodigious and clonal forest colony in Utah that revitalizes itself in the wake of wildfires — Spence considers the potential for destructive acts to give rise to additive, creative, and infinite forms.

Warmer and drier conditions — a result of climate change — are increasing the likelihood of wildfires occurring, along with their size, intensity, and duration, making fires more destructive and difficult to fight.

Intense droughts can lead to destructive wildfires, failed crops, and low water supplies, many of which are deeply affecting southern areas of the United States and other parts of the world.

Intense, destructive wildfires are burning throughout the state, and while September and October are the peak of the typical fire season in California, the number of fires exhibiting extreme behavior and «dangerous» rates of spread has been far higher than usual due to the ubiquity of tinder - dry, drought - cured brush and trees.

A key reason that wildfires have become more destructive, and fighting them more expensive, is that millions of Americans have made a conscious decision to move close to wildlands that are susceptible to fire — known by the infelicitous phrase the wildland - urban interface, or WUI.

«The paradox of fire management in conifer forests is that, if in the short term we are effective at reducing fire occurrence below a certain level, then sooner or later catastrophically destructive wildfires will occur.

Runoff and erosion rates rise dramatically in the rainy seasons following wildfire, increasing the risk of destructive floods, sediment accumulation, and debris flows.

This is a result of what Coloradans have lived through in recent years — season after season of widespread damaging hailstorms and the state's most destructive wildfires.

Volatile catastrophe trends stemming from destructive hailstorms and wildfires are having a significant impact Colorado's homeowners insurance market — both in terms of the number of damage claims and average claims costs.

Over 98 percent of large bushfires occur outside the populous south - east and south - west of Australia with over 70 percent occurring as environmentally destructive wildfires in the savannas of northern Australia.

It has taken weeks to tackle the most deadly and destructive wildfires in California history, a series of fiery eruptions now being called the October Fire Siege.

Just two months after the most destructive wildfires in California history — an event labeled the October Fire Siege — Southern California is now the target of various fires that have burned over 250,000 acres of Ventura, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Barbara and San Diego counties (as of Dec. 12).