Breakthrough Institute: COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF LARGE-SCALE FUEL REDUCTION FOR WILDFIRE MITIGATION IN CALIFORNIA
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Pollution from California’s 2020 wildfires likely offset decades of air quality gains
It was a nightmare fire season that California won’t soon forget.
As more than 9,000 wildfires raged across the landscape, a canopy of smoke shrouded much of the state and drifted as far away as Boston.
All told, more than 4.3 million acres would be incinerated and more than 30 people killed. Economic losses would total more than $19 billion.
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Scientists are mapping the riskiest areas for disastrous wildfire. These are the Bay Area hot spots
The first radio dispatch reporting a vegetation fire on a day in late May put the blaze in the hills on the eastern rim of the Napa Valley, an area that had burned just five years ago in a massive firestorm.