More on Fire

The Antiplanner’s curmudgeonly complaints about the media’s treatment of wildfire last week were a little unfair. Somehow I failed to notice that the L.A. Times had an excellent five-part series on fire a few weeks ago.

Part one looked at the high cost of fire. While fuels were mentioned, they weren’t the most important reason. Instead, the article said, “Drought is parching vegetation. Rising temperatures associated with climate change are shrinking mountain snowpacks, giving fire seasons a jump-start by drying out forests earlier in the summer. The spread of invasive grasses that burn more readily than native plants is making parts of the West ever more flammable.”

Part two looked at another reason why fire is getting more expensive: excessive reliance on air tankers and other aerial tools which, the paper said, “are often just for show.”
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Part three is perhaps the most unenlightened part of the series. It focuses on the large number of homes built in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). The article estimates 40 percent of California’s 12 million homes are at risk of wildfire and quotes all sorts of people hinting at the need for land-use regulation to keep people from building more.

Part four, however, is particularly fascinating, focusing on the invasive plants that are more flammable than the natives.

Finally, part five redeems the flaws in part three by highlighting the “go early or stay and defend” policy adopted in Australia and in a few communities in southern California. All in all, this is one of the best series of articles about wildfire that I’ve seen in the mainstream media.