Megafires in a Warming World: What Wildfire Risk Factors Led to California’s Largest Recorded Wildfire

Massive wildfires and extreme fire behavior are becoming more frequent across the western United States, creating a need to better understand how megafire behavior will evolve in our warming world. Here, the fire spread model Prometheus is used to simulate the initial explosive growth of the 2020 Au...

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Published in:	Fire
Main Authors:	Kevin Varga, Charles Jones, Anna Trugman, Leila M. V. Carvalho, Neal McLoughlin, Daisuke Seto, Callum Thompson, Kristofer Daum
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2022-01-01
Subjects:	wildfire modeling Prometheus megafire hot/dry conditions California wildfires fire weather
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/5/1/16