Wildfires generally are getting larger and causing more damage. The past decade has seen the six worst fire seasons of the past half-century, with three of them—2006, 2007, and 2012—ex-ceeding 9 million acres.1 Bigger wildfires arelikely the resultofawidespread build-up of fuels, due to historic management practices, and changing climatic conditions, with resulting hotter, drier weather.
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