Fighting fire with fire: How prescribed burns reduce wildfire damage and pollution

Oklahoma Forestry Services seeking help to track prescribed fires across state

Oklahoma Forestry Services is seeking help from residents to collect fire data from across the state.

Fighting fire with fire: How prescribed burns reduce wildfire damage and pollution

Wildfires are becoming more intense and dangerous, but a new Stanford-led study offers hope: prescribed burns—intentionally set, controlled fires—can significantly lessen their impact. By analyzing satellite data and smoke emissions, researchers found that areas treated with prescribed burns saw wildfire severity drop by 16% and smoke pollution fall by 14%. Even more striking, the smoke from prescribed burns was just a fraction of what wildfires…