Invasive Grasses and Wildfire Risk in California Invasive annual grasses are reshaping fire behavior across California, increasing ignition frequency and altering recovery pathways in fire prone landscapes.

Invasive grasses increase #fire frequency and change landscapes recovery after fire. Learn more at the North American Invasive Species Management Association's webinar 3/18 at 11 AM PDT. #InvasiveSpecies #InvasivePlants #Wildfire buff.ly/EnRzcLA

Opinion | The Fires Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warning (Published 2024)

Texas suffered its biggest-ever #wildfire two years ago this month. I wrote about what a hotter climate means for the future of American #fire:
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/o... #Nebraska

Opinion | The Fires Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warning (Published 2024)

Texas suffered its biggest-ever #wildfire two years ago this month. I wrote about what a hotter climate means for the future of American #fire:
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/o... #Nebraska

Opinion | The Fires Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warning (Published 2024)

Texas suffered its biggest-ever #wildfire two years ago this month. I wrote about what a hotter climate means for the future of American #fire:
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/o... #Nebraska

Opinion | The Fires Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warning (Published 2024)

Texas suffered its biggest-ever #wildfire two years ago this month. I wrote about what a hotter climate means for the future of American #fire:
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/o... #Nebraska

We are one week away from the 4th International Smoke Symposium, which will take place in Tallahassee, Florida March 23-27, 2026. There will also be an online option to attend. For details, program information, and registration please visit buff.ly/C4MjV2M #Wildfire #PrescribedFire #AirQuality

Nebraska governor has declared a state of emergency due to historic wildfires. At least one death has been confirmed as the fires continue to impact the state. #Wildfire #US

Pick your weather poison this week: Tornadoes, blizzard, record rain, wildfire, or summerlike heat What seemed like a tense meteorological face-off all winter – between persistent blasts of snow and cold in the Eastern U.S. and unsettling warmth and dryness out West – has devolved into a no-punches-pulled weather brawl. It’s a challenge just to keep score, much less make sense of it all, but we’ll do our best to put this head-spinning round of mid-March Madness in the U.S. weather into perspective. Here’s a capsule summary of what’s been happening and what’s on tap: Ferocious cold-front winds knocked out power to more than a million customers in and around Ohio on Friday, March 13. Winter wildfire has scorched over 700,00 acres in Nebraska — an area about the size of Rhode Island — since Thursday, including the state’s largest blaze in modern history. One of the Midwest’s most intense blizzards in recent decades swept from Iowa and Minnesota into the Great Lakes from Sunday into Monday, dumping snow measured in feet in some areas. Severe thunderstorms prowled the mid-Mississippi Valley and mid-South late Sunday, and the severe weather – with a risk of strong tornadoes – was heading toward the mid-Atlantic on Monday. Hawaii has been hammered by relentless downpours that are setting...

Pick your weather poison this week: Tornadoes, blizzard, record rain, wildfire, or summerlike heat
->Yale Climate Connections | More on "Extreme weather events across America" at BigEarthData.ai | #Forest #Toxic #Wildfire #Climate

Three major wildfires have burned at least 600,000 acres in central and western Nebraska, including the largest blaze in state history. Officials report 0% containment and one fatality. #Wildfire #US

A firefighting aircraft drops a large plume of red fire retardant over a burned hillside near a suburban neighborhood, with houses and winding roads visible below dry hills. The image headline reads “Fire Sleuths Get Wildland Urban Interface Data Maps,” with “SEJournal Reporter’s Toolbox” displayed at the bottom.

Communities surrounded by #forest can be a beautiful place to live … or a #wildfire trap. Environmental journalists can #map and identify these so-called wildland urban interfaces through a federal government #resource, writes the latest #SEJournalReportersToolbox.

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Sustainability In Your Ear: The XPRIZE Wildfire Competition Heats Up
->Earth911 | More on "AI drones wildfire detection competition" at BigEarthData.ai | #Forest #Sustainability #Climate #Wildfire

Sustainability In Your Ear: The XPRIZE Wildfire Competition Heats Up Every wildfire starts small. The problem is that by the time most are detected, minutes have already passed and, under increasingly common conditions driven by a warming climate, a fire can grow beyond any tanker truck's capacity to contain. The gap between ignition and coordinated response currently averages around 40 minutes. Firefighters have long understood the math: a spoonful of water in the first second, a bucket in the first minute, a truckload in the first hour. The https://www.xprize.org/competitions/wildfire competition is an $11 million global effort to prove that autonomous systems, including AI-enabled drones, ground-based sensor networks, and space-based detection platforms, can collapse that window to 10 minutes. Our guest is Andrea Santy, who leads the program. She came to XPRIZE after nearly two decades at the https://www.worldwildlife.org/, where she watched conservation projects fall to wildfire. That experience sharpened her understanding of the stakes: wildfires are now the leading driver of deforestation globally, having surpassed agriculture. In places like the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and parts of tropical East Asia, a single fire can eliminate species found nowhere else on Earth. In cities, it can destroy entire neighborhoods in hours. On January 7, 2025, Santa Ana winds drove flames through Pacific Palisades and Altadena, destroying more than 16,000 structures, killing 30 people, displacing 180,000 residents, and generating between $76 billion and $130 billion in total economic losses from a single event. Annual U.S. wildfire costs, when healthcare, lost productivity, ecosystem damage, and rebuilding are included, are estimated between https://headwaterseconomics.org/natural-hazards/wildfire-risk-to-communities/. XPRIZE announced the five autonomous wildfire response finalists just over a year after the LA fires: https://www.anduril.com/, deploying its Lattice AI platform with autonomous fire sentry towers and Ghost X drones; https://www.dryad.net/, running solar-powered mesh sensor networks that detect fires at the smoldering stage; https://www.fireswarm.ca/, coordinating heavy-lift drone swarms that can deliver 100 gallons of water autonomously; https://datablanket.com/, building rapidly deployable drone swarms for real-time perimeter mapping and suppression; and Wildfire Quest, a team of high school students from https://www.valleychristian.net/ in San Jose who used multi-sensor triangulation to locate fires that can't be seen from monitoring positions, solving the literal over-the-hill problem that any fire detection system faces. The conversation covers what the finalists demonstrated during semi-final trials at 40-mile-per-hour winds, why the decoy fire requirement — distinguishing a wildfire from a barbecue, a pile burn, or a flapping tarp — is one of the hardest AI classification problems in the competition, and how autonomous systems would integrate with existing https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/nims/incident-command-system. Santy is direct about where progress is lagging: the testing is ahead of the regulations. Autonomous drones operating beyond visual line of sight and coordinating with manned aircraft in active fire emergencies require https://www.faa.gov/uas/advanced_operations/beyond_visual_line_of_sight that don't yet exist at the necessary scale. There's also the deeper ecological tension — the growing scientific consensus that many fire-adapted landscapes need more fire, not less, and that https://www.ipmkn.org/fire practices developed over millennia have a place alongside autonomous suppression technology. One XPRIZE finalist is already working with an indigenous community in Canada to pilot their heavy-lift drone system in a remote area where that community is exploring how the technology fits their land management approach. Meanwhile, the Trump administration's FY 2026 budget proposes eliminating Forest Service state fire capacity grants, cutting vegetation and watershed management programs by 30%, and zeroing out $300 million in forest research funding — maintaining suppression spending while gutting the prevention and detection infrastructure that could reduce what there is to suppress. The engineering, Santy says, has arrived. Whether the institutions can move at the speed the crisis demands is the harder question. You can learn more about XPRIZE Wildfire and follow the finalists at https://www.xprize.org/competitions/wildfire.

📣 New Podcast! "Sustainability In Your Ear: The XPRIZE Wildfire Competition Heats Up" on @Spreaker #autonomous_systems #competition #drones #ecotech #fire_suppression #los_angeles_wildfires #sensors #wildfire #wildfire_identification #xprize_wildfire

Nebraska Wildfire: Aerial Footage Captures Massive Blaze That Destroyed 600,000 Acres Of Land 🇺🇸 #Nebraskawildfire #morrillfire #massiveblaze #wildfire www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-...

Why are wildfires getting harder to fight? | LSE Research YouTube video by LSE

The London School of Economics (LSE) just released a great video on the science of modern wildfires. In it, Dr. Tom Smith explores how climate change, fuel buildup, and fire suppression policy created today's extreme conditions.

Check it out: youtu.be/UKKhBPWc6pg

#Wildfire #ClimateChange

Opinion | Ladies and Gentlemen, the Northeast Is Burning (Published 2024)

Texas suffered the largest #wildfire in its history just last year. I wrote about it and what it means for #wildfires nationwide (gift article):
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/o... #Nebraska

The Watch Duty site shows many wildfires burning in the U.S. The pink area is where a red flag warning is in effect.

The map shows wind speeds across the US at 5 pm.

Lots of fires burning across the Great Plains as reported on Watch Duty. The wind speed map shows strong winds in red.
#wildfire #fire #wind

Opinion | The Fires Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warning (Published 2024)

Last year, I wrote about the biggest fire in #Texas history, and what it means for the future of #wildfire:
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/o...

Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster – A Bestselling Personal Memoir From the Front Lines of an Unfolding Catastrophe Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster – A Bestselling Personal Memoir From the Front Lines of an Unfolding Catastrophe - Kindle edition by Soboroff, Jacob. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster – A Bestselling Personal Memoir From the Front Lines of an Unfolding Catastrophe.

Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires & America's New Age of Disaster

"Big Palisades fire. We are evacuating,"

Sale: $30 to $14.99

by Jacob Soboroff
Rating: 4.3/5 (425 Reviews)

#Fire #Wildfire #LosAngeles #Books #Memoir #Climate #Journalism #Disaster #BookSky

The Fight Over Logging on U.S. Public Lands Isn’t Done Yet - Inside Climate News Despite an Oregon court ruling in January invalidating a rule that enabled clear cutting, it’s far from the last salvo in the battle for how to fight fires or manage forests—and who can profit from it...

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#logging #Oregon #wildfire #clearcut

NEW RELEASE ALERT: JUST FOR US (WILD FIRE #5) BY J.H. CROIX #NewRelease JUST FOR US (WILD FIRE #5) BY J.H. CROIX is #nowavailable  #foralimitedtime  on retailers Apple, B & N, Google Play and Kobo ....

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 #AuthorJHCroix #SeriesAlert #WildFire  #BookBuzz  #BooksofInstagram #Bookstagram #BookTok #MustRead #readingisourpassion

I am really not looking forward to #wildfire season this year.

I know in my area we had a record low snowpack this year. There’s going to be some serious water issues this summer. Not so much in the city, but everywhere outside it.

Hoping for a cool, wet spring this year.

Spotted this wildfire plume driving in Nebraska yesterday.

#wildfire #Nebraska #fire

Basically, if people choose to live in the mountains, they probably should be fire prepared. If they’re not going to take those precautions, then it’s probably a good idea to live somewhere with substantially less fire risk. #colorado #wildfire

If the giant sequoia is dying out, why are there tens of thousands of seedlings and saplings? Thousands of giant sequoia seedlings sprouted after a fire swept a grove in the Sierra in 2021. Will they replace the behemoths that died or become extinct?

"The new trees number in the thousands — at least 4,000 per acre or as many as 20,000, depending on who is counting. A few rise above head-height, the most energetic sentinels of regeneration."

www.latimes.com/california/s... #wildfire #trees #Sequoia #redwood

Comic strip called "Wavering Wildfires" Panel 1: Worried person in front of a fire "Whenever I feel like the world is falling around me, I try to think of wildfires." Panel 2: A wildfire outside a window "Wildfires can be terrible. Seemingly happen out of nowhere and take out so many things with them." Panel 3: A seed growing out of the ground "but eventually everything grows back fresher and stronger." Panel 4: Person lying in bed sad "Maybe I just need one of my own "controlled burns"

My younger sister @/marynmphotography on Insta is studying to get a degree in wildlife biology and gave me the idea for this comic. She inspires me a lot!

#wildfire #vent #comic

Wind, dry conditions drive growth of Qury Fire near Custer • South Dakota Searchlight A wildfire a few miles southeast of Custer in South Dakota’s Black Hills grew to nearly 8 square miles in size between Thursday and Friday.

A #wildfire a few miles southeast of Custer in South Dakota’s Black Hills grew to nearly 8 square miles in size between its ignition on Thursday and Friday morning, officials said early Friday afternoon. #QuryFire

How Individuals and Households can Better Prepare for Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) Including Those with Access & Functional Needs (AFN)

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#FYI #PaulBeckwith #wildfire #extremeFires

Paul introduces an annual report and a new study, which underline the impact of human caused heating on exacerbating wildfires around the globe.

#ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

4:09 PM EDT, 3/13: Curious about the milky and orange appearance of the Sun across the mid-central and mid-Atlantic regions? The rapid eastward movement of #smoke from various #wildfires in the central Plains and near the mid-Atlantic is the cause. #Wildfire #MidAtlantic