Locals who prepared for fire are wondering how long it will be until their new tools and protocols are needed.

The Portland-based Northwest Interagency Coordination Center helps integrate firefighting efforts of federal and state departments in Oregon and Washington. We have no way of quantifying if we actually were successful in preventing fires.” Clark believes the public is more aware of fire safety after the past few fire seasons. This year may have been cooler and wetter than the recent past, but it was a fairly average year historically, Wise says. Timescale: Month: Place mouse on axis and left-click to pan; wheel up/down for zoom in/out (or shift key+left-click).

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What happened?COVID-19 and wildfire smoke are a deadly combo for SeattleFour takeaways from Washington’s 2020 primary electionA series that asks: What does coronavirus mean for capitalism? National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State Figures from the Fire and Aviation Management Web Applications Program. (1) Property losses only for catastrophic fires. Click on icons to find current wildfire infomation. “We have a ton of resources available right now to suppress fire so it would be very anomalous for a catastrophic type fire to occur on either side,” Clark adds. "But I think [they didn’t anticipate the rain]. Duration helps explain the relative fire resiliency of the Olympics, where nine months of steady drizzle and constant near-100% humidity create a lush, green and nonflammable forest. The following chart ranks the most wildfire-prone western U.S. states by high to extreme wildfire risk as of Source: Verisk Wildfire Risk Analytics used data from FireLine®, Verisk's wildfire risk management tool. Wildfire seasons are defined by Washington state law as lasting from April 15 through October 15 of each year, allowing for burn bans and other restrictions to be imposed on state lands by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources during that time. The Northwest Fire Location map displays active fire incidents within Oregon and Washington. The *2004 fires and acres do not include state lands for North Carolina. We rely on those products from the Climate Prediction Center folks and, again, they just haven't verified very well this year.”The weather is sort of like the stock market, Wise says: Past performance doesn’t guarantee future returns — which means the season could still get bad.

Two weeks ago, highly flammable northeast Washington saw enough rain to “It's the exact moment we should be getting large fires, and instead we get an inch, inch-and-a-half of rain. “But stranger things have happened.”It’s hard to say what’s in store for near-term fire seasons in Washington, Clark says, because our period of record is so short.

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FireLine assigns a wildfire hazard score for each factor plus a cumulative score, on a scale from negligible to extreme risk.

“I think we're still at a point where we're going to have quiet fire seasons,” Bumbaco says. From 1982 to 1996, PCS used a $5 million threshold in defining catastrophes. Additional information about dashboards, layers and wildfire statistics is provided in the BCWS Interactive Map Reference Guide.

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