wildfire season
Annual inferno months
Wildfire season is the time of year when conditions most favor the ignition and spread of wildfires—typically late summer and fall in much of the western United States, when vegetation is dry and winds are strong.
The term has grown more prominent as climate change extends and intensifies these periods: Wildfire season now starts earlier and lasts longer than it did decades ago.
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- dry brushLow-moisture painting method
- smokeAirborne combustion byproduct
- smoke plumeRising mass of combustion vapor
- flamesVisible burning combustion
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- climate patternsEl Nino, La Nina, ice age, warming, cooling
- weatherweather, rain, sun, snow, wind
- annual eventsanniversary, Christmas, birthday, Easter, Thanksgiving
- seasonal forecastslong-range forecast, extended forecast, quarterly forecast, flood forecast, snow forecast
wildfire seasonrainy season
Extended period of precipitation
wet season · monsoon season · winter · flood season · spring thaw
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