Pacific Northwest Wildfires in Recent Years & Looking Forward to Fire Season 2018
Over the past decade, summer temperatures have begun to increase and wildfires have drastically consumed more and more acreage across the Pacific Northwest. We have seen unprecedented burns and in 2017, widespread smoke events like we have not seen in prior years. Within the past 5 years, we have seen our biggest wildfire season ever in Washington state, in terms of acreage burned. 2015 saw 1,137,664 total acres burned across the state, the largest amount of acres burned in recorded…