A cluster of 12 lightning-sparked fires is burning in the Six Rivers National Forest east of Eureka. As climate change continues to alter the landscape, lightning strikes capable of igniting wildfires are expected to multiply. Read the updated story:
While less lightning in California over recent years is good news for fire commanders, the scientists’ projections of an increase in coming decades are sobering: The“There are some lightning strikes in these conditions where you have immediate fire activity,” said Anthony Scardina, deputy regional forester for the U.S. Forest Service. “In other instances, the strike may not show a flame for 72 hours. It could hit a single tree, and in the right environment, it could flame up later and grow.
Brian Rhodes, the U.S. Forest Service’s deputy director for fire and aviation management, said it’s almost impossible to forecast lightning-sparked fires, calling them a “ wild card.” The 2021 lightning storms in the Bay Area and Southern California lasted less than 12 hours, compared to two days of strikes that triggered the. That siege caught authorities off guard for an array of reasons: the number of strikes, the speed at which the fires spread and converged, and how broadly dispersed the lightning storms were.
That same day, lightning sparked the LNU fires, racing through Sonoma, Napa, Lake, Solana and Yolo Counties. Thunderstorms west of Big Sur sparked thefire that spread over five counties. Then, over the next two days, Butte, Tehama and Glenn Counties were struck with multiple lightning fires that killed one firefighter, and the Sequoia National Forest blew up with a fire that burned nearly 170,000 acres.
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