Sentence examples for severity of fires from inspiring English sources

The real question is: How does global warming affect the probability and severity of fires?

They are used to manage wild areas that are fire prone to reduce the risk and severity of fires.

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.

They found no difference in the size or severity of fires before and after the introduction of aerial fire-fighting.

Understanding how fire properties, fire regimes and environmental variation interact to affect structure is required in the face of predictions of increasing size and severity of fires – "megafires".

We analysed the relative effects of fuel age (i.e. indicative of the effectiveness of prescribed fire) and logging on remotely sensed (SPOT imagery) severity of fires which occurred in eucalypt forests in Victoria, Australia in 2009.

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.

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.

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].

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].