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California’s High Tech Approach to Preventing Wildfires

July 1, 2024/

AI-trained cameras are putting eyes — hundreds of them — on land across the state. They’re spotting fires before the 911 calls come in.

Carl Smith

What Is Your Home’s Wildfire Risk?

An updated online tool allows towns and counties to get a sense of their wildfire risk without having to pay for expensive studies.

Headwaters report: Time to rethink wildfire management – Adaptive Firescapes

“Wildfire is coming to our landscape. Is it fire that we can live with or fire that will repeatedly destroy us?

Researchers rethink rural wildfire mitigation – Why you should have a concrete log home.

Barrett says the most effective measure would be for state officials to adopt new, fire-resilient building codes, but emphasizes there are steps homeowners can take to limit fire danger:

Air quality in several US states (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, parts of Wisconsin and Iowa) threatened by growing Canada wildfires: See map

According to Pastelok, the fires could keep burning until September or October. However, predicting when it will improve is difficult.


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