Wildfire Today - News and opinion about wildland fire
Nov 1, 2024 · The models estimated around 10,000 more people died from wildfire smoke in the 2010s compared with the 1960s. “Of the 46,401 (1960s) to 98,748 (2010s) annual fire PM 2.5 mortalities, 669 (1.2% ...
PBS explains how fire whirls and fire tornados form
Sep 2, 2021 · He said the average size of a fire whirl is usually 33 to 100 feet, with rotational velocities of 22 to 67 MPH. But a fire tornado dominates the large scale fire dynamics. They lead to extreme ...
The True Story of the Pulaski Fire Tool - Wildfire Today
Aug 19, 2019 · Chrome plated pulaski presented to a retiring firefighter. On this day 109 years ago the fires of 1910 were burning across northern Idaho, Western Montana, and parts of Washington and Oregon. But ...
Recent Fires - Wildfire Today
Recent Articles. Wildfire suppressants dumped nearly a million pounds of toxic metals into the West U.S. Wildfires and smoke are becoming more deadly around the world, research shows
Analyzing the fire that burned into Gatlinburg - Wildfire Today
On Monday, December 5, the Incident Management Team (IMT) on the Chimney Tops 2 Fire that burned from Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) into the Gatlinburg area reported that it has ...
Fish Fire near Sundance, Wyoming prompts evacuations
10:20 p.m. MDT July 31, 2022. Map showing the location of the Fish Fire at 12:43 p.m. MDT July 31, 2022. The Fish Fire 8 miles south-southeast of Sundance, Wyoming is prompting evacuations south ...
Researchers conduct detailed case study of the Camp Fire
Feb 11, 2021 · On a brisk November morning in 2018, a fire sparked in a remote stretch of canyon in Butte County, California, a region nestled against the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Fueled by ...
A wildland fire was reported along Esperanza Road in the town of Cabazon, California on Thursday, October 26, 2006 at approximately 1:11 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). The fire was initially ...
Has Yellowstone “recovered” from the 1988 wildfires?
Oct 30, 2018 · In 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park caused mostly by lightning burned 793,880 acres, 36 percent of the park, during windy weather following a dry spring and summer. Today I saw an article ...
McKinney Fire prompts evacuations northwest of Yreka, CA
Jul 31, 2022 · McKinney Fire map at 12:30 a.m. PDT July 31, 2022. The white line was the perimeter at 5:19 p.m. on July 29. At 12:30 a.m. Sunday it was 5 miles northwest of Yreka, 2 miles north of Greenhorn Road ...