Almeda wildfire impact— in the US and arround the world.

 

Like every year, the West Coast wildfires are massive and devastating. Due to climate change, dry weather conditions between California and Oregon have been the reason of tons of fuel available to start this massive fire.  In 2020, Oregon and California wildfires have exceeded a record turning thousands of acres of forest area into ash, making it the worst wildfire in the past 18 years. In Figure 1, you can see the damage caused by Almeda fire made in Mountain View Estates, Oregon, which it forced thousands of residents to evacuate from their homes, and where approximately 30 people died during the wildfire. In addition, high levels of smoke were able spread through several East Coast states in the US, even crossing the Atlantic Ocean reaching some Europe skies —getting repercussions on climate change. Moreover, NASA captured images tracking large clouds of smoke and associated aerosols caused by the fire on its way through the states of New York and Washington DC (Figure 2).

Fig 1. Mountain View Estates neighborhoods surface destroyed by Almeda fire at Talent, Oregon.

Fig 2. Wildfire smoke spread from the west to the east of the US.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54180049