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    Wildfire Environment

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    Wildfires are a dangerous threat, and these uncontrolled fires can become highly destructive if not prepared for. Wildfires can not only harm the environment, but can also harm us if they is not dealt with and spreads to human communities. Because of this, it is the job of firefighters to expunge wildfires before they become more destructive than they already are. However, simply expunging a wildfire after it starts isn't the best option to prevent them, since it leaves fuels (leaf litter and fallen branches), which can start an wildfire bigger and more extreme than the previous one that occurred. Sometimes, we need to prevent them from starting again, and this is by prescribed fires, or fires deliberately started. While this might seem ludicrous, like some people might think, it can actually do good for both us and the environment. These are the reasons why. As I said before, simply expunging a wildfire after it starts can leave fuels, such as dead vegetation; and if lit ablaze, these fuels can start a wildfire bigger and more dangerous than the previous one. But by starting a prescribed fire over the area affected by the wildfire, we can greatly reduce the fuels left behind, reducing the chance of a wildfire, or a potentially larger one. Prescribed fires can also improve the habitat of wildlife, especially endangered and plant species, by…

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    Wildfire Fire

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    The most recent example of a devastating wildfire occurred in East Tennessee in November of 2016, involving the cities of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. A devastating combination of extreme drought conditions, present throughout East Tennessee in October and November of 2016, combined with high winds and a lack of proper monitoring of what started out as a small fire in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, became an unprecedented catastrophe for the city of Gatlinburg and portions of Pigeon…

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    Wildfires Research Paper

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    Wildfires Wildfires are one of the top disasters out west of the United States. Wildfires are a event in which a fire is spread over a forest or brush. In some cases these can be tiny little fires, therefore; easy to put out. But when most people think of Wildfires they think of the giant fires out west, the fires that are on the news and can be burning for several days in a row. A fire that broke out in 2013 in the Arizona area was able to be seen on google maps satellite footage. These fires…

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    The Cost Of Wildfires

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    Wildfires are not only a hazard to our land, but also to our wallets. Ingalsbee (2010) talks about the Forest Fires Emergency Act of 1908 in Getting Burned: a Taxpayer’s Guide to Wildfire Suppression Costs. The Forest Fires Emergency Act is a blank check from Congress that gives the U.S. Forest Service the authority to engage in deficit spending for wildfires. Idaho spends thousands of dollars for each fire in labor, equipment and other costs. Wildfires are especially costly here in the Midwest,…

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    Several terminologies have been used worldwide to describe wildfire or forest fire (e.g. Hardy, 2005; Bento-Gonçalves et al., 2012; Eriksen and Prior, 2013; Mhawej et al., 2015). Generally in the United States, these definitions included prescribed fire - which is a controlled burn ignited by human under a controlled environment and on a limited spatial scale. However, in this chapter, we only focus on uncontrolled fire that occurs in the countryside or wildland. Studies such as Kumagai et al.…

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    Likely the greatest hazard to the greater Spokane, Washington area is wildfire. While the risk to human life is low a wildfires economic cost and the risk of property force this hazard high on the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis’s impact category. The Spokane area is comprised several diverse ecosystems all with different fuels, terrain and weather all impacting the occurrence of fire and the characteristics of a wildfire. Additionally Spokane and the surrounding areas all possess a heavy buildup…

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    United States are wildfires. Wildfires impacts everyone, personally and economically. Of course, not every home get destroyed by wildfire but homes that live in in the wildland urban interface areas (shorted to WUI) are at greater risk. These homes can be completely destroyed within moments due a to wildfire all because they are near wooded areas (Western Regional Climate Center). Community in wildland urban interface areas are deeply impacted by wildfires personal and economically. What is…

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    The drought stricken lands of the Western states of America have been battling wildfires for so long that other nations have been extending their assistance to affected areas. The wildfires have been burning approximately 526,000 hectares of land across 10 US states, including California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. One of the badly hit drought-stricken western states is Idaho with 17 huge wildfires blazing since Friday followed by Washington, Oregon and California. The Canadian and American…

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    Millions of acres of timber land are destroyed each year throughout the United States from wildfires. Throughout history wildfires, in the form of crown, surface, and ground, have played a significant role in shaping our lands today. The wildfires are a destructive force that not only tears through the forests, but also burns down residential homes and businesses that displace the local communities for an extended amount of time. Wildfires can have an extremely high cost that impacts the…

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    Stop Wildfires Before They Start. Wildfires have different names, such as forest fires, bushfires, and unplanned fires, which occur across the globe. Wildfires are an uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside area. Wildfires get pretty big in size and they can go at a very fast speed of fourteen miles per hour. Fire can change the speed and the direction at which it spreads out from its original source. It can be devastating because fire has the ability to…

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