Ending the Era of Megafires

A Time Magazine Op-Ed piece looks at how the institutions, incentives, and operating models for wildfire management need to be updated from devoting the vast majority of resources to emergency response and recovery, to preventative measures in which healthy forests and well-managed ecosystems offer the best protection to communities.

Ending the Era of Megafires

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Fires on the Rise in the Far North

Satellite-based maps provided by NASA show that northern wildland fires are becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes, particularly in northern Eurasia, where many are burning more intensely than in the past.

Fires on the Rise in the Far North

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Wildfires, storms fuel 2025 insured losses of $108 billion, Munich Re says

Global insured losses from natural disasters fell to $108 billion last year, according to German-based Munich Re officials, which represented a drop compared with an inflation-adjusted $147 billion in 2024.

Wildfires, storms fuel 2025 insured losses of $108 billion, Munich Re says

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Wildfire NOTD subscriber Brian Fennessy, former Fire Chief at Orange County Fire Authority, said that the Department of the Interior is taking the next step to establish the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, as he oversees the implementation of the new service with the vision of unifying the wildland fire management programs across the Department’s bureaus and offices.

Interior to Launch U.S. Wildland Fire Service

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New way of monitoring wildfire could take flight

An associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at South Carolina's Clemson University found that artificial intelligence can learn to estimate heat by studying patterns in ordinary red-green-blue (RGB) images captured by cameras on drones, allowing future drones to use lighter-weight and less power-hungry cameras to map wildfires.

New way of monitoring wildfire could take flight

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Bentz presses Senate to pass Fix our Forests Act to lower wildfire risks

Rep. Cliff Bentz called on the U.S. Senate to immediately pass the Fix Our Forests Act, which has been passed by the House of Representatives, during a Senate Natural Resources subcommittee hearing in Washington D.C., arguing that government delays in forest management are endangering thousands of lives.

Bentz presses Senate to pass Fix our Forests Act to lower wildfire risks

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‘Wildland Fire Service’ stalled pending further study

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Hunter Bassler, a Journalist at the IAWF's Wildfire Today, reported that Democratic and Republican lawmakers blocked President Trump's executive order to combine the firefighting branches of five agencies into the new Wildland Fire Service, opting instead to maintain the current wildland firefighting structure in their new funding bills.

‘Wildland Fire Service’ stalled pending further study

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