By Emily DeMarco, NASA When wildfires scorch a landscape, the flames are just the beginning. NASA is helping communities across the nation foresee and prepare for what can follow: mudslides, flash flooding, and contaminated surface water supplies. A new online...
Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love—dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous vegetation connecting the understory to the canopy. By Lisa Potter, University of Utah The odds of high-severity wildfire...
When more densely populated Altadena and Pacific Palisades burned along with surrounding wildlands, hazards for residents didn’t stop when the fires were contained. By Kimberly M. S. Cartier, EOS The 2025 Palisades and Eaton Fires torched scrub-lined slopes of the...
By John Cannon, Mongabay On Sept. 8, 2020, a brush field in southern Oregon, in the northwestern U.S., caught fire. Over the next week, “walls” of flame tore through the towns of Talent and Phoenix in the Rogue River Valley....
Human-caused climate change has pushed the onset of fire season in the state to as much as 46 days earlier than it was 30 years ago. By Grace van Deelen, EOS: Climate change warps the timing of natural processes. Scientists...
