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The state Forest Service has banned outdoor burning in 30 Western North Carolina counties in the wake of a spate of wildfires that have burned thousands of bone-dry acres. ... All open burning is ...
Use the + and - buttons to zoom in on the live-updating map and see satellite-detected hot spots associated with the Fork Fire. Click the legend button at upper right for more details. Fork Fire map
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Wildfire burning in the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, United States, in 2020.The Mangum Fire burned more than 70,000 acres (280 km 2) of forest.. A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.
Barry Point Fire progress map. The Forest Service originally reported the final size of the fire to be 93,071 acres (376.64 km 2). [21] That was later modified to 92,845 acres (375.73 km 2). Most of the burned area was Federal land. However, forest lands belonging to the State of Oregon, and various private owners were also burned. [25]
Back burning or a back fire is the term given to the process of lighting vegetation in such a way that it has to burn against the prevailing wind. This produces a slower moving and more controllable fire. Controlled burns utilize back burning during planned fire events to create a "black line" where fire cannot burn through.
This screenshot of a map of the Boone Fire shows the recent perimeters of the wildfire burning in Fresno County in orange as well as areas under evacuation orders (red) and evacuation warnings ...
It is difficult to determine when a forest fire is started by a coal-seam fire, or vice versa. [6] The most common cause of forest fires and haze in Indonesia is intentional burning of forest to clear land for plantation crops of pulp wood, rubber and palm oil. No accurate count of coal-seam fires has been completed in Indonesia.