Why do California fires keep burning in the same places?
Shasta County burns every year, and blazes retracing their flames on landscape recently charred by wildfire isn't unusual.
So don't be surprised the Zogg Fire is burning within the footprint of the 2018 Carr Fire — even though in some areas the Carr Fire destroyed all trees, brush and grass in its path, experts say.
Shasta County burns every year, and blazes retracing their flames on landscape recently charred by wildfire isn't unusual.
So don't be surprised the Zogg Fire is burning within the footprint of the 2018 Carr Fire — even though in some areas the Carr Fire destroyed all trees, brush and grass in its path, experts say.
The West’s Infernos Are Melting Our Sense of How Fire Works
On the windy, hot day of July 26, 2018, as record 113-degree temperatures baked Redding, California, in the northern Sacramento Valley, Eric Knapp toiled in an air-conditioned government office. After work, he planned to meet his wife and 3-year-old daughter, and some family friends, for dinner. Slender and fair-skinned with a gentle smile, Knapp is a research ecologist for the US Forest Service. He was well aware that, three days earlier, in coastal mountains west of town, a wildfire had started when a trailer got a flat tire and the metal wheel rim scraped the asphalt, sending sparks into dry brush.
On the windy, hot day of July 26, 2018, as record 113-degree temperatures baked Redding, California, in the northern Sacramento Valley, Eric Knapp toiled in an air-conditioned government office. After work, he planned to meet his wife and 3-year-old daughter, and some family friends, for dinner. Slender and fair-skinned with a gentle smile, Knapp is a research ecologist for the US Forest Service. He was well aware that, three days earlier, in coastal mountains west of town, a wildfire had started when a trailer got a flat tire and the metal wheel rim scraped the asphalt, sending sparks into dry brush.