Author Archives: Philip Higuera

Philip Higuera is Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana.

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Western wildfires destroyed 246% more homes and buildings over the past decade – CU Boulder fire scientists explain what’s changing

by Philip Higuera, Jennifer Balch, Maxwell Cook and Natasha Stavros

This story was originally published on The Conversation. It can be tempting to think that the recent wildfire disasters in communities across the West were unlucky, one-off events, but evidence is accumulating that points to a trend. In a new study, we found a 246% increase in the number of homes and structures destroyed by […]