Fast Company.com WRITTEN BY ADELE PETERS
Climate change is making fires worse, but that’s not the only reason the Park Fire is particularly disastrous.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS ONLY PART OF THE PROBLEM
Huge wildfires in California are getting much more common—the number of acres burned each summer is around five times bigger than it was a few decades ago. Nine out of the 10 largest wildfires in the state’s recorded history have happened in the last decade. Not far from the Park Fire, the Dixie Fire burned 963,309 acres in 2021, and the North Complex Fire burned 318,935 acres in 2020. In 2018, the deadly Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise, killing 85 people. (Paradise has been rebuilding, though it was temporarily under evacuation orders again when the Park Fire began.) Read article
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