The 2023 Maui wildfires, which killed more than 100 people, left estimated damages and losses of between $13 billion and $16 billion. Economic losses due to Hurricane Katrina, according to ...

Two years before wildfires incinerated swaths of Los Angeles, the city’s fire chief, Kristin M. Crowley, identified “one significant area of weakness” in her department’s ability to ...

The wildfires devouring neighborhoods in the greater Los Angeles area are on track to be the costliest blazes in U.S. history, according to analysts, who estimate total economic losses of as much ...

Monthly ERC values from January 2023 through December 2024 showing the rapid increase in drier fuels and increased fire danger throughout 2024. Source: GRIDMET. ... These real-world examples from the ...

Two of the three fires in Riverside County were only 30 percent contained. An evacuation order affecting about 5,000 ...

The Los Angeles wildfires have reduced entire communities to ash, ... California in 2018 and the Maui wildfires in 2023, said when an entire neighborhood is lost in a fire, ...

The South endures more wildfires per year than any other region, and Louisiana is not exempt from this trend. In 2023, Louisiana saw more than 1300 wildfires and an extreme period of summer drought.

This is the tension local leaders face after big fires, like the deadly blazes on Maui in 2023 or after the Camp Fire burned most of Paradise, California in 2018. They don't want to just set ...

Meanwhile, the Palisades Fire, the most destructive in Los Angeles' history, has now burned over 23K acres, according to Cal Fire. ... In 2023, Canada had an extreme wildfire season, ...

Acreage burned in 2022–2023 totalled some of the lowest levels in the last 40 years. A longer-running trendline shows that the number of state wildfires peaked in the 1920s. That the acreage burned is ...

The 2023 Maui wildfires, which killed more than 100 people, had estimated damages and losses of between $13 and $16 billion. Economic losses due to Hurricane Katrina, according to AccuWeather ...