The Challenge of Wildfires in North America
Published: September 26th, 2024
Summer in North America is a collision of extreme weather seasons. While the Atlantic and Pacific coasts brace for tropical weather threats, tornadoes endanger the U.S. Midwest, and heatwaves stretch across the continent and intensify the risk for drought and fire. Much of the Western U.S. and Canada’s wildlands cope with destructive wildfires each year— a hazard made more challenging by increasingly drier and hotter environments. The 2023 wildfire season was not only Canada’s worst on record...