Nearly three-quarters of western US overdue for wildfires, research indicates

New research presented at American Geophysical Union's 2025 Annual Meeting in New Orleans has found that nearly 38 million hectares of land in the western United States is historically behind on its burning, leaving those lands in a "fire deficit."

Nearly three-quarters of western US overdue for wildfires, research indicates

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