US EditionGeorgia blaze shows how climate change has led to more wildfires in the East
Scientists say climate change and millions of dead trees from Hurricane Helene are fueling larger Eastern fires, with 45% involving the wildland-urban interface.
- Wildfires are becoming more intense and frequent in the Eastern United States.
- Researchers attribute this trend to climate change causing fuel to dry out, record drought, and tens of millions of tons of dead trees from Hurricane Helene that experts describe as a "ticking time bomb."
- University of Florida fire ecologists Victoria Donovan and Carissa Wonkka found that 45% of large Eastern wildfires burn in the wildland-urban interface, with 55% of burned area in these zones.
- Fire scientist Mike Flannigan of Thompson Rivers University warns that drier fuel creates fires "difficult to impossible to extinguish," prompting researchers to form a new network three months ago to study Eastern fire dynamics.
- While Eastern fires remain smaller than Western United States blazes, the Southeast United States saw increased large fires and land burned from 1984 to 2020, and scientists warn warmer conditions will intensify this trend.
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Georgia blaze shows how climate change has led to more wildfires in the East | Talk Radio 1210 WPHT
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Georgia blaze shows how climate change has led to more wildfires in the East - The Morning Sun
Often considered more a problem for Western North America, wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent and damaging in the East, such as this week's blaze that destroyed more than 50 homes in Georgia, fire scientists said. Researchers blame a number of factors including climate change causing fuel to dry out and be more flammable, a record drought, tens of millions of tons of dead trees from Hurricane Helene and just the large area where dense…
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Georgia blaze shows how climate change has led to more wildfires in the East
Wildfires are often thought to be a problem for Western North America, but climate change and other factors are making fires nastier in the East, especially this year.
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