Sentences with phrase «wildfire risk there»

(Update: The boreal forest of Northern Canada may become moister as well, reducing wildfire risk there, even as that risk increases in places like Australia and the Eastern Mediterranean basin.

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.

Not exact matches

According to a 2015 report by CoreLogic, in the western U.S. alone there are now more than 897,000 residential properties in areas that are at high or very high risk for wildfires.

«There's a lot of evidence to suggest that homeowners don't fully acknowledge the risks associated with natural disasters — in particular, the risks associated with wildfire,» McCoy said.

«There are over 5 million housing units in this ecosystem that need some form of fire protection, and wildfire risk and housing demand are only expected to increase in the next 50 years.»

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

There hasn't been much significant earthquake activity of late, but wildfires are certainly a major risk to be aware of.

There's a reduced risk of wildfires in Santa Monica, of course, but the reduction in frequency of claims found there is also part of what drives down the There's a reduced risk of wildfires in Santa Monica, of course, but the reduction in frequency of claims found there is also part of what drives down the there is also part of what drives down the cost.

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.

«One major concern about wildfires becoming more frequent in permafrost areas is the potential to put the vast amounts of carbon stored there at increased risk of being emitted and further amplify warming,» said Todd Sanford, a climate scientist at Climate Central and lead author of the group's newly released report on Alaskan wildfires, by e-mail.

As AR5 explains, for example, there are risks of carbon - cycle feedbacks that would accelerate non-anthropogenic emissions (e.g., the release of methane hydrates, or increased wildfires or the accelerated deterioration of the Greenland ice sheet).

Lots of dead trees surely means there is an increased risk of severe wildfires, right?

There hasn't been much significant earthquake activity of late, but wildfires are certainly a major risk to be aware of.

From hurricanes to tornadoes to wildfires and flooding, there are many ways that the unpredictable weather can put your home at risk.

Is there a high risk of wildfires?