ESIIL Director Jennifer Balch led a paper entitled The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020), which was featured on the cover of the journal Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.adk5737

Press Coverage

CIRES News. Fire speed, not size, drives threat to people, infrastructure

Bloomberg. Wildfires are Gaining Speed, a Worrying Trend for the West.

Teaching Tool

This team also developed a curriculum tool in collaboration with the Center for Education, Engagement, and Evaluation (CEEE) to go along with the new paper. It can be found here, and is built on NSF's CODAP (Common Online Data Analysis Platform), which is designed to make it easier to get real data into the hands of students. https://datapuzzles.org/puzzle-pieces/fast-and-destructive-wildfires-united-states-2012-2020