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#NationalFireNews: May 28, 2024: Currently nine large fires have burned 37,502 acres in five states. Arizona has three, Florida and New Mexico have two and California and Colorado each have one. Two complex incident management teams are assigned to the #Blue2Fire and #IndiosFire in New Mexico. About 1,600 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents across the nation. For #FireYear2024, 15,366 wildfires have burned 1,911,995 acres. This continues to be below the 10-year average of 21,388 wildfires and almost double the average acres burned of 1,025,236. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gTj5mZB 📸 Photo from InciWeb of a Roosevelt Interagency Hotshot on the #SpruceCreekFire on USDA Forest Service - San Juan National Forest.

The Park Fire, which ignited in Bidwell Park on Wednesday afternoon, has quickly become the largest wildfire in California this year, burning over 45,550 acres. The fire spread rapidly due to south winds and has led to evacuations in Butte and Tehama counties. While downtown Chico is not currently under threat, the fire remains a serious concern for the community. As of Thursday morning, the fire was only 3% contained. Firefighters are working tirelessly to contain the blaze, but the dry conditions and strong winds continue to pose a challenge. The National Interagency Fire Center has not yet established a burn perimeter for the fire. Satellite-detected burning data from Opterrix illustrates the fire's progression over the past 24 hours. ------------ Don't be caught off guard this wildfire season. We can help you safeguard your policyholders with our cutting-edge risk intelligence platform and weather data. Schedule a live demo today to see how we can fortify your wildfire preparedness and response strategies. https://lnkd.in/dNdBwkkX #Wildfire #ParkFire #RiskIntelligence #Claims #EventResponse #CustomerNotifications

The Smokehouse Creek wildfire in Texas is continuing to grow and consume more towns across the northern part of the state. For context on how large this fire really is, it would cover the distance from Philadelphia to NYC with >1M acres burning. The fire is only 3% contained at the moment. As we head into the warmer and drier months, it's critical to have an enterprise level solution for wildfires. Not only does WeatherOptics provide the location of active wildfires, our predictive modeling also shows where fires are likely to spread over the next 24 hours, and what key assets, lanes, or shipments are at risk. This gives communities, emergency managers, and businesses a chance to prepare or evacuate early. Learn more about our Wildfire Risk products today: https://lnkd.in/eSBamRcX

#NationalFireNews: June 10, 2024. Currently, nine large, uncontained wildfires are being managed with full suppression strategies nationwide, in Florida, Washington, Arizona, and New Mexico. Four large wildfires are being managed under strategies other than full suppression, in New Mexico and Florida. A complex incident management team is mobilizing to the #PioneerFire in Washington, which is threatening structures. The team managing the #IndiosFire in New Mexico is demobilizing and transferring command back to the local unit today. During this #FireYear2024, 17,554 fires have burned 2,000,232 acres. More on National Fire News: https://lnkd.in/gTj5mZB 📸 Photo of the #McDonaldFire in Alaska. Photo by Lakota Burwell, Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service.

It’s easy to keep your focus small and pointed toward the west when thinking of large wildfires. Having lived in California and Colorado it’s easy to forget how many fires burn on the eastern half of the country. It’s important to maintain awareness of this as a truly national problem, even outside of what most of us consider the fire season. “November 10, 2023 Seventy-three new large wildfires were reported since November 3. Wildland fire personnel were able to contain more than thirty large fires in the past week. Currently 53 large fires have burned 134,154 acres in 13 states. States with the most large fires include Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. The Quaker Run, Collet Ridge, and Poplar Drive fires each have a complex incident management teams assigned. Nearly 2,100 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents.” #wildfires https://lnkd.in/gR9sGRqs

CalFire, California’s firefighting agency, has ranked the Post Fire the state’s largest wildfire so far this year. As temperatures rise and conditions are expected to remain dry this summer, this disaster signals the start of a potentially dangerous wildfire season. See why in this The New York Times article. https://nyti.ms/3xnofSy #AlliantPrivateClient #Wildfire #RiskManagement

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Boulder Fire-Rescue has implemented Fire Aside’s Defensible Space & Home Hardening software in an expansion of the Curbside and Wildfire Home Assessment Project which aims to conduct an assessment of each home within the WUI in the City of Boulder. Boulder Deputy Fire Chief, Jeff Long shared “As Boulder Fire-Department continues to create more robust responses and community education pieces about wildfire risks in our community, it is important that we can rely on systems that are already tested to do the work that we need done. Fire Aside is an example of a system that allows us to better engage and inform our community about wildfire risk reduction.” We are proud to support Colorado agencies like Boulder Fire-Rescue who are following Biden's Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission report recommendations, building pro-active sustainable solutions to make their communities more wildfire resilient.  Christopher Anthony Danielle McNutt Ralph Bloemers Bob Horton Hussam Mahmoud Evrim Bunn Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell Steven Hawks Bill Clerico Kate Dargan Marquis City of Boulder Benjamin Yellin Paul Cada Alister Watt Todd Lando Scott Farley

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