California is now battling its second- and third-largest fires in state history. And it's just the start of peak wildfire season.
Where will the West's next deadly wildfire strike?Many of the fires were caused by a mass of lightning strikes last week – sparks that lit a tinder box of vegetation left dry and crunchy by months of persistent heat and low humidity."We’ve definitely had lightning complex fires before," said Rick Carhart, Cal Fire public information officer for Butte County."The scope of this one, just the fact it's so many fires in such a large area of the state ... is an anomaly.
The fire season in California and across the West is starting earlier and ending later each year, and climate change is considered a key driver of this trend, according to Cal Fire. "Warmer spring and summer temperatures, reduced snowpack, and earlier spring snowmelt create longer and more intense dry seasons that increase moisture stress on vegetation and make forests more susceptible to severe wildfire," the departments says on its website.
These factors have lengthened the fire season by about 75 days across the Sierras, according to Cal Fire, which predicts that, in Northern California,"above-normal large fire potential" will persist through October. In Southern California, the department predicts there will be an above-normal large fire potential in October and November.
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