Wreckage from the 2023 wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii Rick Bowmer/Associated Press/Alamy
Wildfires in the western US aren鈥檛 only growing bigger. They are also growing faster, putting millions of people and properties at greater risk.
鈥淚n the context of home destruction and lives lost, we really need to think more about fire speed than fire size,鈥 says at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Rapidly spreading wildfires, such as the Camp Fire in California in 2021 and the Lahaina fire in Hawaii last year, are especially destructive, essentially becoming unstoppable because they move faster than firefighters can…
