by Web Editor | Sep 28, 2015 | News, News/PR
The amount of land burned by wildfires in the U.S. this year has surpassed 9 million acres, according to data released Thursday by the National Interagency Fire Center. This is only the fourth time on record the country has reached the 9 million-acre mark, center...
by Web Editor | Sep 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
As of Tuesday, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, more than 8 million acres have burned in U.S. wildfires in 2015. 8,202,557 of them, to be precise. That’s an area larger than the state of Maryland. And the numbers are still growing: 65 large fires are...
by Web Editor | Mar 6, 2015 | News, News/PR
Record low snowpack amid a second straight drought year has wildland managers bracing for what they consider an upcoming wildfire season in which catastrophic wildfires in the Cascades or Siskiyous “seems inevitable.” State and federal wildfire experts...