Climate Hazards 5.04: Hazard Case Studies : California wildfires 2020

Media Articles

• CBS News Pictures: California fires 2020: Homes burn, thousands evacuated

• National Geographic: Witness California’s record blazes through the eyes of frontline firefighters

• National Geographic: How wildfire smoke affects your body—and how you can protect yourself

• National Geographic: Meet the wildfire superspreaders

• National Geographic: How climate change supercharges wildfires in the West

• UC Riverside: Wildfires can cause dangerous debris flows

• AGU: Landslides after wildfires

• ProPublica: They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

• NBC News: California exceeds 4 million acres burned by wildfires in 2020

• CBS News: Tens of thousands without power, hundreds evacuated as new fires erupt in California

• CBS News: The climate science behind this year’s wildfires and powerful storms

Research

• Higuera, P.E. and Abatzoglou, J.T. 2020 Record-setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States. Global Change Biology 27, 1-2. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15388

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