Worrisome U.S. Wildfire Risks Leading into Summer of 2018
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June, 2018
The
trend of increasing large wildfires for the U.S. West due to climate
change is
clear as clear can be.
And as we enter 2018, fire officials are concerned that we might
experience another damaging summer and fall similar to 2017.
(Analysis
of the present state of U.S. fire season.)
…warmer
and drier-than-normal conditions have put large portions of the
Western United States at above-average risk for significant wildfires
between now and September.
This
year’s wildfire season could rival last year’s, which was one of
the most devastating on record, said Vicki Christiansen, interim
chief of the U.S. Forest Service.
With
drought conditions and warmer than normal temperatures prevailing
across the U.S. West at present, a number of large wildfires are
breaking out. The most significant now run through Colorado,
New Mexico and
California. In addition, four
large fires are burning over Alaska where
much warmer than normal temperatures have also settled in.
Last
year was one of the most destructive fire seasons on record.
53 lives were lost, 12,300 homes were destroyed, and more than ten
million acres burned. The situation this year, though not quite as
intense as early 2017, has sparked concern. Presently 1.75 million
acres have already burned from more than 24,000 fires — which makes
the start of 2018 fire season the
third worst of the past ten years.
(Severe
western drought and above average temperatures are contributing to
increased fire potential during June of 2018. Warmer temperatures and
worsening droughts are also related to human-caused climate change.
As a result, unless human caused warming is abated, fires will
continue to grow larger and more intense. Image source: The
National Weather Service.)
Climate
change is
identified as the primary factor increasing wildfire risk across the
United States by the Union of Concerned Scientists. According to that
scientific body, the
incidence of large fires covering more than 1,000 acres has increased
from 140 over the U.S. West during the 1980s to more than 250 after
2000. The
same study found that fire season for the West had increased from
five months to seven months, that temperatures were rising, and that
mountain snows were melting earlier.
In
the future, unless fossil fuel burning is rapidly reduced, the area
of land burned in the U.S. West could
increase by up to 650 percent.
So wildfires are a substantial hazard related to climate change. And
the present more severe season cannot be excluded from a trend that
has been amplified by that change.
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