Population growth in increasingly affected areas of the country, mixed with climate change and fire suppression policy, make for disastrous fires.
“I have thought it won’t be long before we start experiencing fires like California where flames chase people out of their neighborhoods,” Becky Bolinger, an assistant state climatologist at the center at Colorado State University, toldThere was no stopping the fire once the downed power lines made contact with dry ground vegetation left overfrom a tumultuous spring and summer According to the, tall grasses that sprung up during a wet spring dried out during the summer drought that plagued the...
On top of tricky climate conditions, population growth poses an especially serious threat for disastrous wildfires. As more people move into what were once uninhabited grasslands, fire-risky activities, like starting a car or having a barbeque, become more common. All the while, toward suppressing natural flames. Keeping small burns from happening in populated neighborhoods ends up leading to more and more fuel build-up, setting the stage for massive destruction.“Unfortunately, this illustrates one of the worst-case scenarios,” Philip Higuera, a professor of fire ecology at the University of Montana,
when interviewed about the fires outside of Denver. “There are these high-wind events under these extremely dry conditions, and you’re basically crossing your fingers and hoping there isn’t a human-caused ignition in the wrong place.”
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