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: [...]
