Over the past two decades, a staggering 21.8 million Americans found themselves living within 3 miles of a large wildfire.
who studies the wildfire-climate relationship and its socioenvironmental impacts. For the new study, colleagues and I analyzed the annual boundaries of more than 15,000 large wildfires across the lower 48 states and annual population distribution data to estimate the number of people exposed to those fires.
Not every home within a wildfire boundary burns. If you picture wildfire photos taken from a plane, fires generally burn in patches rather than as a wall of flame, and pockets of homes survive.We found that 80 percent of the human exposure to wildfires—involving people living within a wildfire boundary from 2000 to 2019—was in Western states.
California stood out in our analysis. More than 70 percent of Americans directly exposed to wildfires were in California, but only 15 percent of the area burned was there.Hot, dry weather pulls moisture from plants and soil, leaving dry fuel that can easily burn. On a windy day—
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