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    Home » World News » Fires turn larger, more frequent and disastrous across the US

    Fires turn larger, more frequent and disastrous across the US

    By Sanjeev RamachandranMarch 19, 2022 World News No Comments3 Mins Read
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    A study has pointed out that that large fires have not only become more common, but they have also been spreading into fresh terrain.

    Breaking out of fires across the United States terrain has been an alarming phenomenon. Even as the nation’s administration had been looking at measures towards reduction in these mishaps, latest information reveals that fires have been getting larger and more frequent.

    Since year 2000, the fires have been getting larger every time they happen. And in recent times, the magnitude of these blazes have been seen as a result of extreme conditions relating to climate change.

     A University of Colorado Boulder-led paper published in the journal Science Advances has triggered concern that large fires have not only become more common, but they have been spreading into fresh terrain too. And this, has been causing much damage to land that previously did not burn.

    Possibility of more fires in the future

    The study has pointed to the situation that the predicted changes in climate, fuel and ignitions could mean that an added number of blazes could break out in the future. These changes have already started happening, says the paper.

    Scientists, in their bid to gauge how the size, frequency and extent of fires have changed in the United States, probed into data from over 28,000 fires that occurred between 1984 and 2018. The result was that they found there were more occurances across all regions in the contiguous United States in 2005-2018. This is against the numbers recorded during the previous two decades.

    While the frequency of fires had doubled in the West and East regions, the Great Plains saw the incidents had quadrupled. This also meant that land burned each year went up from an average of 4,019 to 14,249 square kilometres in the West and from 1,204 to 3,354 square kilometres in the Great Plains, the report has pointed out.

    Threat to lives, health, homes of millions

    Also, in the West and Great Plains, the largest wildfires were seen as have grown bigger and ignited more often during the 2000s. The large break outs were found to be occurring around the same time as other large fires, the study pointed out.

    These larger co-occurring blazes were found as bringing about major changes in the vegetation composition and structure, snowpack, and water supply to the communities. Further, such a phenomenon has all in it to challenge fire-suppression efforts and thereby prove a threat to lives, health, and homes of millions in the US.

    The trend is such that the future could be more terrifying. It has been forecast that large fires coupled with intensifying development could mean that the worst fire disasters are still to come.

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    Sanjeev Ramachandran
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    A journalist with 23 years of experience, Sanjeev has worked with reputed media houses such as Business Standard, The New Indian Express, MSN India, PanAsiaBiz. Sanjeev can be reached at [email protected]

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