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 the past…
Adam PrellApril 13, 2017
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 winds, hot…
Adam PrellFebruary 3, 2017
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 in below…
Adam PrellJanuary 7, 2017
Valparaíso Fire On the afternoon of January 2nd, around 400 people were forced to evacuate Valparaíso, a coastal port city in central Chile, due to a forest fire that entered a…
RedZoneJanuary 3, 2017
Sage Fire near Simi Valley Around 2:30 pm on Tuesday, December 20th, a brush fire broke out on a neighborhood hillside in Simi Valley, California, near Los Angeles. The Sage…
RedZoneDecember 27, 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 destructive in…
Michael CoxDecember 20, 2016
Chimney Tops 2 Fire Update Tough questions were abundant at this morning’s press conference as word fell that a thirteenth victim has been identified in the aftermath of this week’s…
Adam PrellDecember 2, 2016
Sevier County Fires Summary High winds, prolonged drought, and multiple fire starts have Sevier County, Tennessee as the latest victim in this fall’s wildfire barrage on the Southern Appalachians. Two…
Adam PrellNovember 29, 2016
Loop Fire Recap This week marks the anniversary of another infamous fire disaster. Two winters of below average rainfall, fuel moistures at critical levels, and multiple months of Santa Ana events lead to…
Adam PrellNovember 4, 2016
