Wildfire impact
Smoke Damage: Silent Devastation
Unfortunately for most, after a wildfire has passed is when the real work begins. The wildfire may not have impacted the home with direct flame impingement, but even […]
RedZone Insights
Category: Wildfire impact
Weather
Wildfire Outlook – April 2023
Below are summaries from the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook, provided by the National Interagency Fire Center, for the period of April through July 2023. Additionally, the […]
Drought
The Direct Impact of Soil Conditions on Wildfires
In the Western region of the United States, drought conditions are a common topic of conversation. The best practices for conserving water, preserving land, and responding to wildfire […]
Weather
Wildfire Outlook – May 2022
Below are summaries from the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook, provided by the National Interagency Fire Center, for the period of May 2022 through August 2022. Additionally, […]
Catastrophe
Researchers are Warning About Cascading Disasters and Our Inability to Model Them
Cascading Disasters Cascading disasters are when a prior disaster either causes a later disaster, or makes a later disaster much worse. Sometimes they have an obvious cause and […]
Drought
Wildfire Outlook – March 2022 to June 2022
Below are summaries from the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook, provided by the National Interagency Fire Center, for the period of March 2022 through June 2022. Additionally, […]
Wildfire 101
US Announces Plans to Prevent Wildfires
After another record-breaking year, the Biden Administration announced new plans to prevent wildfires on Tuesday. The 10-year, multi-billion-dollar strategy sets to reduce the fire risk on up to […]
News
Rethinking Wildfire Danger in New Development Projects
Background Following a publication in the International Journal of Wildland Fire about the trend of high wildfire damage in interface communities in California, previously approved housing developments in […]
News
Wildfire Outlook: January 2022 – April 2022
Below are summaries from the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook, provided by the National Interagency Fire Center, for the period of January 2022 through April 2022. Additionally, […]
News
2021 Wildfire Season Retrospective
2021 Predictions Coming out of the historic 2020 wildfire season with many of the same troubles and complications extending out to the next year, most predictions were ominous […]
