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  • Presentation | B23B: Advances in Remote Sensing for Fire Detection, Monitoring, and Characterization II Oral
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  • B23B-02: The Fastest-growing and Most Destructive Fires in the US (2001 to 2020)
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Author(s):
Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado Boulder (First Author, Presenting Author)
Virginia Iglesias, University of Colorado at Boulder
Adam Mahood, University of Colorado Boulder
Maxwell Cook, University of Colorado Boulder
Cibele Amaral, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Amy DeCastro, Muon Space
Stefan Leyk, University of Colorado at Boulder
Tyler McIntosh, University of Colorado Boulder
R. Nagy, University of Colorado Boulder
Lise St. Denis, University of Colorado at Boulder
Ty Tuff, University of Colorado Boulder
Erick Verleye, University of Colorado Boulder
Park Williams, University of California, Los Angeles
Crystal Kolden, University of California Merced


The most dangerous wildfires are the ones that move and spread quickly. Balch et al. used satellite data to show that the growth rate of wildfires across the contiguous US increased substantially between 2001 and 2020, particularly throughout the West and in parts of the East. Over that period, peak daily growth rates more than doubled in the western US. More than three-quarters of the structures destroyed by wildfires were burned in these fast fires. —Jesse Smith, Science editor



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