Sentences with phrase «wildfire risk»

[5] Extreme heat and years of ongoing drought, both linked to climate change, are increasing wildfire risk in California by contributing to the frequency and severity of wildfires in recent decades.

«We studied bird populations following two types of vegetation removal, prescribed fire and mastication (the mechanical crushing of vegetation), because both management methods have been used to try reduce wildfire risk in California chaparral,» said Erica Newman, lead author of the study and scientist in the UA School of Natural Resources and the Environment.

The impacts of runoff and soil moisture deficits associated with warm temperatures can be acute, including enhanced wildfire risk (21), land subsidence from excessive groundwater withdrawals (22), decreased hydropower production (23), and damage to habitat of vulnerable riparian species (24).

AER scientists manage the Fireline analytics to evaluate wildfire risk at the property address level by using advanced remote sensing technology.

There is potential to improve the incentives for wildfire risk management and suppression, but doing so will be difficult — and it will require political resolve.

This post was originally published on this siteExtreme heat and years of ongoing drought — both linked to climate change — are increasing wildfire risk throughout California.

The AER scientists in the FireLine team utilize advanced remote sensing technology to evaluate wildfire risk at the property address level.

(View a breakdown by CoreLogic of costs associated with wildfire risk factors.)

That is a gigantic problem in itself that will lead to huge wildfire risks in the future and big changes in wildlife habitat.

Finally, we studied whether potential decadal predictability of soil water would provide a means to ascertain wildfire risks across North America.

Likewise, no direct push from climate change could be found in California's wildfire activity, though it is clear that it is increasing the overall wildfire risk there.

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Scientific evidence shows that climate change is producing hotter, drier conditions that contribute to worsening wildfire risks in the American West.

For example, drought is an important contributing factor to the occurrence of wildfire, thus accurate drought prediction may provide useful information for wildfire risk mitigation.

Climate disruption in California — including record high temperatures, ongoing drought, tree die off and bark beetle outbreaks — has increased the state's wildfire risk by extending wildfire seasons, expanding at risk areas, and increasing fire size.

As a result, these wildfires are causing more deaths and destroying more homes due to that fact that more people have moved into areas with high wildfire risk.

Learn what you need to know about wildfire risk to homes and real property from Michele Steinberg of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).

In addition to economic value lost in the timber sector, drought reduces water quality, harms the quality of recreation activities, decreases rangelands suitable for livestock grazing and boosts wildfire risk.

The Southwest is facing red flag warnings through Thursday due to elevated wildfire risk.

The diminishing wildfire risk in these regions is coherent with widely reported decreases in area burned since about 1850, as reconstructed by dendrochronological dating of forest stands.

Related: A 2012 Room for Debate feature explored the role of federal policies in amplifying and mitigating wildfire risk.

County opposes Crater Lake wilderness plan Commissioners cite wildfire risk, ban on motorized vehicles

This finding is especially important in light of our recent report on eight cities and counties across the West that studied whether and how communities are altering the way they confront wildfire risk.

Verisk's industry - leading wildfire risk management system FireLine, powered by AER, is now available for Texas.

They will provide ecologists and land managers with new and better information to support biodiversity conservation, wildfire risk assessment, and timber production while helping climate scientists and others to better understand the role that U.S. forests play in the global carbon cycle.»

Certain consequences of global warming are now inevitable, including sea level rise, more frequent and severe heat waves, growing wildfire risks, and an increase in extreme weather events.

Our aging electricity infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to the growing consequences of global warming, including sea level rise, extreme heat, heightened wildfire risk, and drought and other water supply issues.

This is likely [and confirmed by NCEP precipitation model forecast below] to lead to below - average rainfall over the last months of 2012 — and, as the ITCZ descends to the southern hemisphere, possible progressive drought and above - average wildfire risk in the South East Asian tropical forest biomes.

We can expect to see in the report some of the Western portions of the U.S. mentioned as having an increased wildfire risk due to climate change and drier conditions.

The lessons from these reports can help other local governments and federal policy makers develop best practices, lessons, and tools to reduce future wildfire risk.

Communities can apply now for a CPAW assistance grant to help reduce wildfire risk within the wildland - urban interface through improved land use planning.

The twin forces have killed some 129 million trees across nearly nine million acres, building up a massive amount of fuel and significantly raising wildfire risks, according to the state fire department.

This tool helps insurers assess wildfire risk at the address level.

Always check to see that your policy does not specifically exclude wildfire risk.

Tools for localities to use include more accurate wildfire risk maps, better planning practices, more effective zoning and building laws and better building codes.

This new research shows that in addition to a discernible contribution from natural forcings and human - induced global warming, the large - scale difference between Atlantic and Pacific ocean temperatures plays a fundamental role in causing droughts, and enhancing wildfire risks.

Though other human activities, like changes in land use and forest management practices, can also increase wildfire risk, the evidence increasingly points to an upward nudge from climate change too.

There are a number of climate factors also upping the odds of a bad wildfire season in the western U.S. Drought - addled California continues to be a huge wildfire risk.

Girardin, M. P. & Wotton, B. M. Summer moisture and wildfire risks across Canada.

A survey from the United States Forest Service this spring found 40 million dead trees statewide and estimated that 29 million of those trees had died just in the last year, worsening wildfire risk and creating a temporary year - round autumn - like landscape.

[1] Extreme heat and years of ongoing drought are both linked to climate change and are increasing California's wildfire risk by contributing to the frequency and severity of wildfires in recent decades.

Learn what you need to know about wildfire risk to homes and real property from Michele Steinberg of the National Fire Protection Association.

CARREIRAS M, FERREIRA AJD, VALENTE S, FLESKENS L, GONZALES - PELAYO O, RUBIO JL, STOOF, CR, COELHO COA, FERREIRA CSS, RITSEMA CJ Comparative analysis of policies to deal with wildfire risk (2014) Land Degradation & Development, vol.25, pp.92 - 103 DOI: NA

PROSPECT Federal forest managers are turning their eyes on a large swath of public land north of Prospect for an ambitious series of forest restoration projects aimed at reducing wildfire risk, improving stream and wildlife habitat and improving forest he