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Category: Wildfire impact

Wildfire impact

Regional Wildfire Forecasts: April – July 2017

This year has resulted in above-average wildland fires throughout the United States, with over two million acres burned since Jan. 1, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. […]

April 20, 2017 · 3 min read
Current Fires

Florida Wildfires Provide Big Start to 2017 Fire Season

Florida wildfires have already produced unprecedented statistics for the 2017 wildfire season. Spring is wildfire season for the region, but the acreage burned to date has far exceeded […]

April 13, 2017 · 2 min read
Current Fires

Southern Plains See Record Wildfire Activity

Southern Plains Wildfires This week, unprecedented fire activity swept through the southern plains. Multiple counties of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas saw critical fire weather conditions Sunday through Wednesday […]

March 9, 2017 · 3 min read
Catastrophe

Chile Wildfire Outbreak “Worst in Country’s History”

Chile Wildfires Displace Thousands For the past three weeks, wildfires have ravaged Central Chile in an event President Michele Bachelet called the “greatest forest disaster in our history”. Strong […]

February 3, 2017 · 2 min read
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Catastrophe

2016 Fire Season in Review

Fire Season in 2016 saw no shortage of headline-filling wildfires across the US and North America.  However, 2016’s final numbers for both total starts and total acres burned actually came […]

January 7, 2017 · 2 min read
RedZone Insights
Catastrophe

Ten Most Destructive Wildfires of 2016

Wildfire Season in 2016 was below average in terms of acreage with almost 62,000 fire ignitions totaling 5.3million acres (down from a record 10 million acres burned last year). But this year was especially […]

December 20, 2016 · 1 min read