@esagara

@esagara

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined March 2008
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Proud of my Big Local Class this fall and the work this team did examining costly forest fires -- want the data and an analysis guide? Hit me up!
Stanford Journalism@StanfordJourn17 Dec 2018
Analysis by students in our @BigLocalNews class has found California dwarfs other states in fire-suppression costs. And dense development at the border of wildlands helps explain California fires’ exceptional damage and expense to put out. peninsulapress.com/2018/12/1…
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Want to set up your computers like the #NICAR18 labs? We put together a list of all the software we installed github.com/ireapps/install-g…
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🎉Happy #GISDay!!🎉 Celebrate by taking a trip through our newest story map that shows how we're using #lidar to expose Washington's #geology and natural hazards! #GeologyRocks wadnr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/C…
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You can read more of @esagara’s wildfire coverage on our site revealnews.org/topic/america… Or listen to our podcast. revealnews.org/episodes/amer…
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These fires are nowhere near contained, and there’s a lot we don’t know about their extent, where they began and what has been lost. 18/
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The #Atlas fire began in an area that hasn't seen fire since 1981. CAL FIRE has no recorded fire history where the #Patrick fire began. 17/
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The #Tubbs and #Nuns fire started in areas that last burned in 1964. 16/
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A century of land use policies stopped forests from burning like they're naturally supposed to. revealnews.org/article/when-… 15/

When spark meets sprawl: Building in wildlands increases fire risk - Reveal

Wildfires, long considered a problem exclusive to the West, now threaten many other parts of the country as extreme weather becomes more commonplace and more people live in areas at risk for wildfire.

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The vast majority of North American forests are supposed to burn every few years ... 14/
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Another exacerbating factor: The fires are burning in areas that have not seen fire for decades. 13/
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..But more people living in these areas means a greater chance for fire. Humans cause as much as 90 percent of wildfires. 12/
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Nationwide, about 8.5 million homes have been built in these areas since 1990. Not only are there more homes at risk of burning… 11/
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The shaded areas on this map show WUI zones in the area: where buildings are intermixed with forest. 10/
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Another risk factor is that much of the area is in what’s called the Wildland-Urban Interface, or WUI. 9/ apps.revealnews.org/wui/
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The four fires all began in areas rated at moderate or very-high fire severity. 8/
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Wide swaths of Napa/Sonoma are rated as having moderate to very-high fire severity - where the chances of destructive fire is highest. 7/
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Why is a fire in these areas so dangerous? Several reasons. 6/
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(By the way, imagery and data in these tweets are from Cal FIRE, Google and the Silvis Lab at the University of Wisconsin Madison.) 5/
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It’s not unusual to have wildfires this time of year. Fire season is now year round here. But these spread quickly with little warning. 4/
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As of this afternoon nearly 60K acres have been charred. About 1,500 homes have been lost. 10 people have died. 3/
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