Sentences with phrase «where wildfires»

A study by the Denver Post and the Environmental Systems Research Institute shows that in Colorado alone, 4.4 million people reside where wildfires pose a high risk.

Saving On Billings Homeowners Insurance Billings residents pay around $ 521 a year on average for their insurance, which is less than other areas of the state, where wildfires are more common and fire stations are further away.

And where home insurance is concerned, making sure that you're not underinsured if you live an area where wildfires or landslides are a serious risk, and that you acquire additional Earthquake Coverage in high risk areas of the state, are just a few examples of the unique insurance considerations that make understanding California insurance so important when you start shopping around.

For drivers in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, California and Colorado — states where wildfires are a common danger — it's important that motorists pay attention to television and radio broadcasts and be aware of the weather conditions along their route.

And where home insurance is concerned, making sure that you're not underinsured if you live an area where wildfires or landslides are a serious risk, and that you acquire additional Earthquake Coverage in high risk areas of the state, are just a few examples of the unique insurance considerations that make understanding California insurance so important when you start shopping around.

Moreover, don't forget that at least one other part of the global north where wildfires sometimes burn atop permafrost — namely, Canada — is also having a busy 2015 wildfire year.

It reminds me of living in Southern Oregon, where wildfires and their smoky pink clouds were natural as the cycle of seasons — dry summer drifting into fall.

The fires have put property worth billions of dollars at risk in California, where wildfires in the northern part of the state in October resulted in insured losses of more than $ 9 billion.

PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO Life flourishes in what's now charred forest in Manorville, where the Wildfire of 2012 destroyed homes and property.

To get the big - picture, we've created a brand new wildfire tracker that shows where every wildfire is burning with a side of climate.

To get the big - picture, we've created a brand new wildfire tracker that shows where every wildfire is burning with a side of climate.

Not exact matches

FORT WORTH, Texas — Some of the largest brewers in the U.S. are trying to reduce their water - to - beer ratio as drought and wildfire threaten the watersheds where they draw billions of gallons every year.

Chaulk's own home survived, but the wildfire razed 2,400 buildings, including the houses where he grew up and where he and Tanya had their first child.

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In today's interconnected world — where one negative customer experience can spread like wildfire — an incredible positive experience, by contrast, can be a brand's defining moment.

And like it or not, we live an age where missteps, and perceived slights spread like wildfire on social media.

For example, some mobile home insurance policies exclude damage from wildfires, which might be a serious risk to a manufactured home depending on where it is located.

When there is no event on, it's perfectly clean.m when there was a huge wildfire in my county some years ago, that's where the firefighters stayed.

«Since then, Sub1 rice varieties have spread like wildfire in eastern India and other regions where flooding is a perennial problem for rice farmers in such marginal environments,» he said.

Legend holds that oil rig workers from Louisiana introduced cayenne hot sauce into the region, where it has spread — well, like wildfire.

For families living in disaster - prone areas, where the threat of a hurricane, tornado, flood, earthquake, or wildfire is constant, especially during some times of the year, the realization is that it could happen to them next.

More than 100 state and local emergency personnel were fighting a massive wildfire Sunday in the Sam's Point Preserve in southwestern Ulster County, where the fire had already engulfed roughly 300 acres.

They looked to their models to determine where this «perfect storm» might come together and found that, by the end of the century, almost all of North America and most of Europe would likely see a jump in the frequency of wildfires.

Pinyon pine, an iconic and dominant species in the West, has suffered nearly 100 % mortality at sites in Colorado and Arizona, where climate change has made trees more susceptible to bark beetle outbreaks that in turn result in increased wildfires.

Another fire season is underway in the hot, dry western U.S. Wildfires are wreaking havoc in New Mexico and Colorado, where more than 32,000 people have been evacuated.

The wildfire forecast follows a major heat wave in California, where the temperatures soared above 120 °F (48.9 °C) in some parts of Southern California.

Almost everywhere on the planet where combustible green cover exists, wildfires are becoming a bigger risk, new research has found.

Areas where combustible vegetation grows that are at risk from wildfires have doubled in this time period.

A new study of Colorado's devastating 2012 Waldo Canyon wildfire demonstrates that prompt and effective action can significantly change the outcome of fires that occur in areas where residential communities and undeveloped wildlands meet.

In the UF / IFAS study, scientists wanted to know how and why some butterflies survive wildfires and prescribed burns, particularly where the insect feeds and lays eggs on fire - adapted plants.

But, the authors agree, where fuel reduction is an appropriate goal, it would ideally be achieved by letting wildfires do their job.

It is official: the state's 2012 wildfire season was a doozy, with record insured losses, and the evacuation of 32,000 residents in the northwestern quadrant of Colorado Springs where 347 homes were destroyed in the Waldo Canyon Fire, the largest number in state history.

Californians are at particular risk from wildfire - related health impacts, because the state has the largest population in the U.S. living in wildland - urban interface (inhabited areas approaching wildland areas) where there is an elevated risk of being exposed to wildfires.14 More than 11 million people, about 30 percent of the California population, live in these wildland - urban interfaces.5

Wildfire is now a dominant force no matter where you live.

Our metric also revealed similar impacts across Eastern Canada in 2010, where high temperatures and significant water deficits led to large wildfires (Fig. 4, 2010) 52.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

Stand condition is particularly important on state and federal forests where a policy of fire suppression for the last 100 yr has increased tree density and the risk of mortality from defoliating and boring insects, and from wildfire.

«We need to re-examine where and how we build our communities, so that we can learn how to better coexist with wildfire — similar to how we've adapted to other natural hazards.»

This week, the worst wildfires in Colorado state history are lighting up the state, specifically in Colorado Springs but also in Boulder where I work.

Not that it doesn't have fun with the obvious archetypes — Josh Brolin was basically born to play the kind of gruff, no - nonsense commanding officer who stands on ridges talking to the wildfires as he tries to predict where they're headed next.

These scenes take place in the enormous forested region of Landes where huge wildfires rage in the distance.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced the assistance as part of a $ 693 million package that will also help schools in Texas, hit hard by hurricanes in 2017, and California, where many campuses were damaged by wildfires.

The HTC Wildfire could also be seen as a lite version of another handset, where this time it's the HTC Desire phone.

HTC's previous feature - limited handsets were the Wildfire and Wildfire S Android mobiles, where this new device arrives with a similar set of features only the mobile phone maker has said this will be aimed at an even lower price point.

Later on in the week, the Samsung Galaxy Tab WIFI - only edition tipped up, Asus launched a Android Honeycomb tablet, with a real keyboard and the HTC Desire S and Wildfire S pre-ordering opened up, where we published a hands - on walk - through in pictures of the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer.

This fourth week of the month began with One Mobile Ring reporting the Google's Nexus S handset has had its price slashed, where HTC and Vodafone updated the budget Android phone Wildfire handset.

Commtiva's tablet offers little more than the budget Android handsets, such as the HTC Wildfire — where it feels disappointing that the Commtiva is around # 200 more expensive.

Midweek, Three took stock of the HTC Wildfire S and the next Android version was confirmed as «Ice Cream Sandwich», where 3D Augmented Reality is coming to an LG mobile phone.

One Mobile Ring already took stock of the HTC Wildfire S at the end of March, where we published and hands - on walkthrough in images here and an initial thoughts review of the handset here.

The Google OS update now provides the ability to record HD 720p video on the Desire, where HTC bundles in their App Share widget that first appeared on their recent Wildfire budget handset.