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Area recovering from the 2002 Rodeo-Chediski fire. Lightning Grass, Brush, Deadwood Gila 2,147 0 0 0 2012 Cooks Complex Fire [77] Three separate lightning ignited fires merge into one, 5 miles east of Black Canyon City, Arizona. Lightning Desert Scrub Yavapai 7,299 0 0 0 2012 Fox Fire [78] Six miles south of Superior, Arizona. Lightning Desert ...
Rodeo–Chediski fires on July 1, 2002, as seen from NASA's ER-2 aircraft. The Rodeo–Chediski Fire was a wildfire that burned in east-central Arizona beginning on June 18, 2002, and was not controlled until July 7. [2] It was the worst forest fire in Arizona's recorded history until June 14, 2011 when the Wallow Fire surpassed it. [3]
The Goodwin Fire was a wildfire that burned 28,516 acres (11,540 ha) in the U.S. state of Arizona over 16 days, from June 24 to July 10, 2017. The fire destroyed 17 homes and damaged another 19 structures, but no firefighters or civilians were injured or died in the fire. Investigators did not determine any particular cause for the fire.
A study conducted in 2019 found that from 1972 to 2018, California saw a fivefold increase in the area burned in any given year, and an eightfold increase in the area burned by summer fires. [21] Another study estimated that the area burned between 1984 and 2015 could have been half of what it was without human-caused climate change. [26]
The Horseshoe 2 Fire was a 2011 wildfire located along the southeastern flank of the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona.It began in Horseshoe Canyon on the Douglas Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest on May 8, 2011, at approximately 11:00 a.m. [2] The fire was started by human activities, [2] [3] and burned over 9,000 acres (14 sq mi; 3,600 ha) in its first day. [4]
Human-caused fires are also responsible for 97% of wildfires that threaten homes. People often start wildfires through dangerous actions, including open burning, campfires, firearms and equipment use.
NASA satellite image, midday, June 12, 2011. Vertical line is AZ-NM state line. The Wallow Fire was a wildfire that started in the White Mountains near Alpine, Arizona on May 29, 2011. It was named for the Bear Wallow Wilderness area where the fire originated, The fire eventually spread across the stateline into western New Mexico, United States.
A 2021 study published in the journal Nature asserted that the "primary cause" of ocean defaunation is overfishing. [31] Other studies have shown that overfishing has reduced fish and marine mammal biomass by 60% since the 1800s, [40] and is currently driving over one-third of sharks and rays to extinction. [41]