Climate change makes wildfires in California more explosive
A new study pins about 25% of the extra risk on human-caused climate change.
During some of the worst hours in Camp Fire, which in 2018 burned the town of Paradise, California to the ground, the fire was growing so fast it ate up 10,000 acres within just 90 minutes.
Wildfires like the Fire that intensify and spread enormously within a, keep fire experts up at night. Now a , published Wednesday in Nature, uses a machine-learning model to show that climate change has nudged the risk of fast-spreading fires up by about 25% on average in California. That's compared to a time
