The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a time-lapse video of smoke from California wildfires captured by its satellite. The Line Fire, Bridge Fire, and Airport Fire ...

Horrifying images are emerging from the Napa Valley in California ... a fire can wreak, but it’s harder to understand the scale of the disaster. In fact, the best way is to take a long view ...

California's record wildfires ... from the University of Copenhagen studied the 2020 wildfires, applying artificial ...

In the last 22 years, three wildfires have swept across the area, all but erasing the cover of gray-green sage scrub documented in 1930s aerial photographs. Southern California’s native ...

The online map builds a comprehensive database of fire prevention and mitigation efforts at every level of government to help agencies coordinate their work and understand the impacts of projects.

Statistics vary, but it is estimated that power lines account for only three percent of the wildfire ignition scenarios, but fully 19 percent of all the acreage burned in California from ...

My colleague James Temple just wrote about a new effort from Google to fund an AI-powered wildfire-spotting satellite constellation ... to get a full 360-degree view of the surrounding area.

Wildfires are a short-term hazard that can be avoided from a human impact point of view by stopping all "management" of the forests, remove ourselves from them and let them go back to nature like ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection also prohibits the use of contractors as aerial supervisors, a policy that was formalized this year but was in practice for a couple years ...

The Orange County Fire ... uses retired aerial supervisors who’ve worked for the Forest Service and other government agencies and are among the best in the business. In the California market ...

Launched on 5 September 2024 on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite ... effects of the wildfires raging through California.

FOOT LADDERRoscommon Township Fire Chief Joe Williams (left) and Capt. Cody Parr raised the ladder on the department’s new 75-foot aerial. The truck arrived from the Central Fire Protection District ...