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Something that is used to estimate wildfire activity for a region is the Red Flag Guidance/ Verification Matrix, or otherwise known as a Red Flag Warning. A Red Flag Warning is an estimation issued by the United States National Weather Service to inform fireman as well as land management agencies that conditions are susceptible to wildfire activity. Besides the warning system used for this activity, there are various environmental factors that can affect a fire. Things such as temperature, wind, precipitation and relative humidity are all things that influence the beginning of a fire, its behavior, or fire suppression. For example, the higher the relative humidity is as well as the speed of the wind are factors that increase the need for a …show more content…

The term fire severity was created due to the need to provide a description of how the intensity of a fire affected ecosystems. Fire severity is essentially used as a system of measuring the loss or decomposition of organic matter, both aboveground and belowground. The limitations of fire severity are that it is difficult to measure the loss or decomposition of organic matter. There are essentially three categories that determines a fires severity (unburned/light, moderate, and deep), however they do not predict the recovery of the land. Its limited to simply describing how the much damage an area endured during a wildfire. If the Earths climate continues to increase its temperature, its impact on fire severity will have a direct relationship. In other words, fire severity will increase as the climates average temperature increases because warmer weather allows for the proper conditions for more wildfire …show more content…

Figuring out the rate of spread is one of the most significant systems used in forest fire science because is provides vital information about how fast a fire is moving so that warnings can be issued to those occupying that land. The limitations of fireline intensity are that it is very difficult to measure correctly. In other words, measuring something like fireline intensity is often difficult because people tend to exclude other factors, such as post-frontal smoldering, that impact the final outcome. If every single factor is not included or measured directly, calculating the fireline intensity becomes a much more daunting challenge. Climate change definitely has the ability to alter fireline intensity. It can alter fire size, frequency and how long a fire season will

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Several studies have been conducted to characterize the lasting impacts that wildfires have had on water quality. The Rough Fire that occurred in California during the summer of 2015, was an intense fire and one of the largest that the state has had recently. Since the proposed project is to quantify the degree to which the Rough Fire impaired water quality in the affected area, several water quality parameters will be examined. It has been shown that sediment loads, erosion, and nutrient inputs increase after intense wildfires and that the temperature of water may increase and dissolved oxygen (DO) levels may decrease. To understand the degree to which water quality impairment has occurred in the affected Rough Fire area, four water quality

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Wild fires can happen where droughts occur and there are sufficient dry combustibles in the form of foliage, but they are more common in certain areas of the country, so check the records first. Research about other natural hazards, but keep in mind there is no property immune from certain occurrences but you have to know the frequency of the most common ones. Fifth Concern: Security and

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In the book, Addy and her friends discover their fondness for nature, but in the droughted forest, there is risk of wildfire. The timing, intensity, and frequency of drought in an area can have a significant impact on how large the wildfire is and how fast it spreads.

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The idea that the of using controlled fires to protect wild areas is a topic in which it is debatable on the use of such a procedure as many see it as a way to control the forest and others see it as quiet a dangerous operation to conduct. As it can be seen as ways of controlling certain factors of the forest and even means of preventing future situations ,however with the pros their are cons . As these fires ensure to be controlled ,the system relies on specific factors and is based on what the fire is meant to incinerate .In other words the ways in which the procedure is preformed are too unpredictable such as variables of weather season and even area . But the pros of a controlled fire are those that need to taken in consideration for the

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This article was made at the beginning of 2021, so her statements are up to date. The second article is also contributed to climate change by the author Mark Kreider. This article is called Fighting Every Wildfire

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Drought has hit California hard. There is barely any more water remaining, “the Golden State has depleted its water resources so much that it 'll all be gone in about one year”(Jay Famiglietti). This NASA scientist used satellites to figure out that most of our water sources are completely depleted. A few weeks ago, there was a huge fire called “The Valley Fire which scorched more than 76,000 acres across Lake, Napa and Sonoma counties, killed four civilians, injured four firefighters and destroyed nearly 2,000 buildings”(Kale Williams). The Valley Fire grew so fast, since there was a terrible amount of dry brush and trees, which easily caught the whole area on fire, and that’s also how the fire grew 10,000 acres over a few hours.

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People who argue against prescribed fires say that it "produces to much smoke" or "there's a risk of the fire escaping". First of all, the smoke of a prescribed fire is way less than that of an uncontrolled fire. Second, the chance that the fire escapes is very slim, it usually never happens in controlled fires. Some people worry about the plant life and the soil as well, when there is no need. Usually the habitat is destroyed when an uncontrolled fire is happening, and the soil only gets effected it the fire is at a somewhat high intensity.

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