Western Wildfires Destroyed 246% More Homes and Buildings Over the Past Decade – Fire Scientists Explain What’s Changing

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By The ConversationFeb 3, 2023, 5:37 pm502 ptsHotTop
By Philip Higuera, Jennifer Balch, Maxwell Cook and Natasha Stavros It can be tempting to think that the recent wildfire disasters in communities across the West were unlucky, one-off events, but evidence is accumulating that points to a trend. In a new study, we found a 246% increase in the number of homes…

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