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So the question on my mind as a rural resident of the US North is, is this going to happen to the US North soon? Are we in the same boat as Canada in terms of
by rapjr9 3y ago
So the question on my mind as a rural resident of the US North is, is this going to happen to the US North soon? Are we in the same boat as Canada in terms of drying forests and undergrowth accumulation?
- redmen 3y ago[dead]
- yummypaint 3y agoYes, much of the western US is also at risk. Warmer temperatures create ideal conditions for pine beetles which run rampant killing entire forests. All that dead wood in addition to other accumulation caused by lack of natural fires means when it burns it gets so hot it kills everything in the soil and essentially turns it to regolith. Hot fires like that take a long time to regenerate from.
- aperson_hello 3y agoAre you talking Montana or Maine? One of those has a MUCH higher fire risk than the other (though both have risk!).
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://hazards.fema.gov/nri/wildfire https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/wildfire https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2022/wildfire-risk-map-us/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interacti...