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The 2024 Virginia wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of Virginia.During the 2024 Spring wildfire season between February 15 to April 30, at least 411 wildfires burnt "nearly 20,000 acres", the largest area burned in the last 30 years in that time period, and nearly ten times as much as the 2023 Spring season with 2,174 acres.
2024 Virginia wildfires – Estimated damage totals are $1,200,000. [3] Waites Run Virginia, West Virginia: Hardy (WV), Shenandoah (VA) 6,223 March 20 April 29 2024 Virginia wildfires [3] Waterfall Mountain Virginia: Page, Shenandoah: 6,399 March 20 April 29 2024 Virginia wildfires [3] Hinson Florida: Lake: 2,352 April 5 August 12
During the 2017 and 2018 wildfire seasons, many residents in smoke-affected areas lacked access to N95 masks or clean air spaces, particularly in rural or low-income communities. [64] Since the introduction of the Clean Air Spaces Act 2023, cities like Portland and San Francisco now distribute free N95 masks and set up "clean air centers" in ...
Drought conditions along with leaves falling have made for wildfires that have been "more challenging to contain." Wildfires prompt state of emergency in Virginia Skip to main content
The storm system Sunday hit many areas with a 0.10 to a half-inch of rain. Firefighters consider 0.10 inches a "wetting rain," the minimum necessary to combat spreading wildfires.
Crews were battling scores of wildfires around Virginia on Thursday, including a fire affecting hundreds of acres at Shenandoah National Park, amid an elevated fire risk, officials said. More than ...
Between 1970 and 2015, three times more "large fires" (fires that burn 1,000 acres or more) occurred in the Western U.S., with six times more acreage burnt, more than 1.7 million acres annually. [23] Between 1970 and 2003, the region experienced wildfire seasons that were 78 days longer. [24]
So far, there have been 4,024 wildfires across Canada, scorching more than 23.5 million acres, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. That already exceeds the record of 18.7 ...