npj Natural Hazards - Compounding effects of climate change and WUI expansion quadruple the likelihood of extreme-impact wildfires in California

The fetch is reduced after applying momentum perturbation and the reduction is directly proportional to the amplitude of the perturbations Applying momentum perturbation up to half the boundary l...

Extreme fire conditions converged in suburban neighborhoods built into the forests, shrubland and grasslands and quickly spread.

At the turn of the century, wildfires destroyed only about 3% of the California homes they came into contact with. By 2020, the rate had risen to 18%, a new study found.

Drought extremes have cascading impacts on agriculture, ecosystems, water resources, and human health. Forecasting droughts remains challenging without resolving tightly coupled soil–plant–atmospher...

As weather and climate extremes intensify in frequency and magnitude, there is a pressing need to draw on observational records, empirical methods, and cross-disciplinary research to better characteri...

Around half a million homes were exposed to large fires in the US, with 68% of exposures and a sixfold increase during 2001–2020 in the West Survivability declined by 12% in the western US in the...

Heatwaves are associated with a disproportionate share of wildfire activity and trends in the western US in recent decades.

Although half of Earth’s population resides in the wildland-urban interface, human exposure to wildland fires remains unquantified. We show that the population directly exposed to wildland fires incre...

npj Natural Hazards - Compounding effects of climate change and WUI expansion quadruple the likelihood of extreme-impact wildfires in California