Only Hurricane Katrina rivaled California's 2007 wildfires for infernal destructiveness. The 2007 wildland fire season reported 85,583 fires and burned 9,318,710 acres. Prior to 2005, the yearly fire season in California traditionally ran from June 1 until October 31; since 2005, the notion of an official fire season has been abandoned. Fire season now runs from January 1 through December 31. Since 1986, according to the journal Science, longer, warmer...
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