Bigger and More Frequent Wildfires Burning Western U.S.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014 Auto Property

Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years, according to a new study. The number of wildfires over 1,000 acres in size in the region stretching from Nebraska to California increased by a rate of seven fires a year from 1984 to 2011, according to a study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal published by the American Geophysical Union.


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