What Makes Wildfires Destructive in California? Study Points to Distance to Human Development and Fire Weather.
/A new paper by USGS and partners investigated why some California wildfires are destructive and others are not.
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Syphard, A.D., Keeley, J.E., Gough, M., Lazarz, M., Rogan, J. 2022. What makes wildfires destructive in California? Fire, 5(5), p.133.
https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5050133
Relative independent variable importance explaining the difference between destructive and non-destructive wildfires ≥100 ha for three California regions from 2000–2018.
