Month: March 2022

What do wildfires produce?

Fire produces: energy (heat, light) carbon dioxide (for most fires) water smoke particulates hydrocarbon emissions carbon soot More. Contact your local fire department to see if they have any carbon monoxide detectors to give to you. Perhaps surprisingly, the animal casualties from wildfires are low —animals survive by burrowing into the ground or fleeing to …

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How wildfires help?

Even the healthiest of forests contain dead trees and decaying plant matter. As strange and counter-intuitive as it may sound, some species of trees actually need forest fires to prosper. What do wildfires do to the atmosphere? Wildfires release large amounts of carbon dioxide, black carbon, brown carbon, and ozone precursors into the atmosphere. These …

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Do wildfires cause droughts?

Drought can be a contributing factor to wildfire. Dry, hot, and windy weather combined with dried out (and more flammable) vegetation can increase the probability of large-scale wildfires. Drought in your area? Dense wildfire smoke can temporarily block sunlight near the ground, causing regional temperatures to drop by several degrees. Wildfire smoke can also have …

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