All told, the size of orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size of ...

Unlike an insurance company’s risk assessment of a house in the woods, which might take into account its composite wood sidings or the scraggly tree limbs overhanging its roof, hazard maps only ...

Sting brings about a scorching, burning, and aching feeling ... whole from stems before pupating within a hard, wood cocoon spun on poles or tree trunks, of wood larvae fed on.

AI is a way to train a computer program to recognize repetitive patterns: smoke plumes in the ... the materials burning and the weather to help predict how a fire is likely to spread.

Credit: SciTechDaily.com Tree-ring data indicates a decrease in fire activity across many forests, where the lack of fire may lead to more intense wildfires in the future. Despite common belief, North ...

which might take into account its composite wood sidings or the scraggly tree limbs overhanging its roof, hazard maps only take into account the lasting facts about a place. That includes topography, ...