Corey (host)
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first heard May 2026
last heard 14 Aug
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Erica Smithwick, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, says every wildfire needs ignition, or a source, fuel and dry conditions to spread, and more and more places are fitting the bill as the climate changes because of the burning of fossil fuels.
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People sit living in fire prone forests putting them at more risk of these fire events, she says, but these are the kinds of conditions that we're thinking about for the future in the eastern United States.
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Something that wasn't on our radar, even as fire scientists for the past few decades.
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The fires in Spokane, a group of three separate blazes collectively called the Spokane Complex Fires, began last Saturday.
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The flames have scorched more than seventy seven hundred acres, destroyed more than seven hundred structures, and forced nearly seven hundred.
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65,000 people out of their homes, and they're still raging.
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As of Monday morning, the fires were 0% contained, meaning firefighters had not been able to establish a perimeter to prevent the blazes advance.
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Now this was uh the last Monday, not today.
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Since I'm recording this last week, I'm not sure of the status as of today, Monday the tenth, but if you're curious how those blazes are going at this very moment, feel free to give it a Google.
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Though wildfires are often associated with the West Coast's dry summers, climate change is putting more and more places at risk of wildfires as increasingly hot air sucks moisture from forests.
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One twenty twenty four study found that extreme wildfires happen twice as often now as they did two decades ago.
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That's crazy.
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Just twenty years and we have twice as many wildfires.
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It is one thing to sort of understand that wildfires are natural, they've been happening forever.
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It's nature's way of burning through areas of heavy fuel.
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It keeps everything in balance.
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But to have a doubling of the number of wildfires in 20 years sure makes it sound like things are not in balance.
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Wildfires in recent years in New Jersey, Tennessee, and Maui, all places with historically low risks of wildfires, offer examples of this devastating impact.
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Regions such as the North.
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