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At least three wildfires have impacted the area in the last three weeks, including the ongoing Jennings Creek fire in Sterling Forest. Track the wildfires now. Wildfire map: Track the latest ...
Population growth in metros with people in areas of high wildfire risk increased by roughly 70% between 1990 and 2020 whereas the population in the average American metro area increased by about 40%.
Recent brush fires in Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park and Brooklyn’s Prospect Park have drawn attention to the marked increase in those incidents this year in New York City, whose fire department ...
One of the largest wildfires was the Chimney Tops 2 Fire, which burned more than 10,000 acres, and closed the Chimney Tops Trail. [11] The Great Smoky Mountains wildfires were the deadliest wildfires in Tennessee, [12] as well as the deadliest wildfires in the eastern U.S. since the Great Fires of 1947, which killed 16 people in Maine.
The wildfires also led to poor air quality across the region, with the air quality index reaching 201 in New York City late on November 9. [13] While light rain fell in New Jersey from November 10 to 11th, including up to 0.23 in (5.8 mm) in Trenton and 0.19 in (4.8 mm) in Newark , the rain failed to provide much relief for the wildfires.
The Tennessee Division of Forestry reported 64 fires had burned 17,734 acres. The largest was in Morgan County in the White Oak Circle area covered about 1,900 acres. Another on Neddy Mountain in Cocke County had burned 1,116 acres. [18] [19] By November 21, just 95 acres were reported still burning in Tennessee, and at least half of the state ...
Two brush fires in Manhattan park. A two-alarm fire was burning a large portion of brush at Inwood Hill Park at the north end of Manhattan, the Fire Department of New York City said Wednesday evening.
2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires: Tennessee: Began in late November 2016. It significantly impacted the towns of Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, both near Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The fires claimed at least 14 lives, [67] [68] injured 190, [69] and is one of the largest natural disasters in the history of Tennessee. [70] [71] [72 ...