Wildfires will be more severe and more frequent. Climate change is here.

"Wildfires - California, USA

More than 30,000 people fled for their lives Thursday as a late-season wildfire swept across this town in the Sierra foothills, incinerating numerous homes and businesses and prompting desperate rescues of residents trapped inside buildings and on clogged evacuation routes.

The blaze exploded to more than 20,000 acres, adding to a catastrophic two years of wildfires in California that have raised new questions about how the state will cope with a warmer and drier climate."

Nov 9 2018

From:

Earth Report 

See also:

ABC NEWS: Evacuations ordered as Northern California wildfire grows

 

Camp Fire Updates: Chico and Paradise wildfire evacuations, news

"Basically, we haven't had rain since last May or before that," said Read, the fire chief. Everything is a very receptive fuel bed. It's a rapid rate of spread."