Wildfires

Quincy, CA, during the 2021 Fly Fire. This fire eventually combined with the Dixie Fire and burned nearly 1,000,000 acres in Northern California, destroying the communities of Greenville, Indian [...]

PYRECAST – EASY-TO-USE NEAR-TERM FIRE FORECASTING TOOLS FOR IMPROVED WILDFIRE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. Please join us as Dr. Chris Lautenberger presents the latest features and functions of the [...]

In March, the Climate Action Reserve’s Climate Forward program approved SIG’s Reduced Emissions from Megafires (REM) forecasting methodology. This methodology provides a novel [...]

After visiting conferences throughout the last year, SIG-NAL’s Executive Director, Graham Wesolowski details his experiences initiating a Regional Wildfire Mitigation program: For the past 18 [...]

This week, many large media platforms ran front-page or lead stories on the launch of Fire Factor, a new wildfire prediction tool by First Street Foundation that lets property owners look up [...]

As we speak, firefighters in Northern California are battling hundreds of blazes across 775,000 acres, sparked by dry lightning strikes. Unfortunately, disastrous wildfire seasons in our state [...]

$180 billion USD. 8400 buildings. 1,381,000 acres. Nearly 8% of the State of California’s GDP. The numbers produced by wildfires are staggering. In 2015, the world experienced the strongest El [...]

Picture above shows the thick haze filling the air outside Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia in September 2015, during the peak of the wildfire/haze season. Photo credit: [...]