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U.S. Wildfires Threaten More People Than Ever
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More than a half-million Americans had close encounters with catastrophic wildfires between 2000 and 2019 — partly because they lived in high-risk wildfire areas, but also because published in the journal Nature Sustainability, reflect what experts from Boise State University call “cumulative primar
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  • More than a half-million Americans had close encounters with catastrophic wildfires between 2000 and 2019 — partly because they lived in high-risk wildfire areas, but also because
  • published in the journal Nature Sustainability, reflect what experts from Boise State University call “cumulative primary human exposure” to wildfire. It is a sobering indicator of how wildfires are shifting closer to populated areas, a condition that will worsen as the
  • “This is wildfire getting out of hand,” said Mojtaba Sadegh, an assistant professor of civil engineering at Boise State and senior author of the study published this month. “
  • ived in Western states, notably California, the researchers found. But more than 106,000, or 18 percent, of those facing catastrophic risk were in states from the Great Plains to Florida.
  • e common in forests from Maine to Minnesota as conditions grow warmer and drier, experts say. Northern Minnesota’s Superior National Forest, for example, has seen an marked uptick in wildfires, including a 93,000-acre fire in 2011 in the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

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