Sentence examples for severity of fire from inspiring English sources
This summer, the growing severity of fire seasons prompted the Obama administration to ask Congress to adjust the formula by which it appropriates funds to fight bigger wilderness fires that are threatening homes and businesses.
Industrial-scale forest degradation and conversion are increasing fire occurrence, and interactions with climate anomalies such as El Niño induced droughts can magnify the extent and severity of fire activity.
This change in the severity of fire has altered ponderosa pine forests from the open stands typical of pre-settlement times to even-aged, high-density stands at increased risk of crown fire.
Improved understanding of the extent and severity of fire, the feedbacks between fire and climate, and the effects of changing fire regimes on all aspects of the carbon cycle is needed before we can fully predict the magnitude, or perhaps even the direction, of the effect of changing fire regimes on global carbon balance and atmospheric chemistry.
Although there have been cases where fuel treatments do not reduce the severity of fire due to extreme fire weather, insufficient removal of fuels, small treatment units, or vegetation growth since treatment [19, 20], fuel treatments have been shown to reduce fire severity and rates of tree mortality when management sufficiently reduces surface, ladder, and canopy fuels [21, 22].
The extent and severity of fire has increased during recent decades.
The scale and severity of fires in the Southwest and Colorado are affected by a different mix than those, like the huge raging Rim Fire around and in Yosemite National Park, in the Sierras.
The real question is: How does global warming affect the probability and severity of fires?
We are going into a warming period, and the thing about warming patterns is it increases the severity of fires.
They are used to manage wild areas that are fire prone to reduce the risk and severity of fires.
El Niño could bring wetter and cooler weather to this region, reducing the number and severity of fires for a while.
