wildfire

With the rain falling this week, plus the prospect of a wet winter, some are now bracing for a different variety of wildfire threat: the possibility of flooding and debris flows in burn scar areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

"I stood in Stourbridge and watched families lose everything," he said on Thursday, recounting the night of a wildfire that destroyed 19 homes in the West Midlands in August.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Officials are hopeful this week’s heavy rains have helped ease wildfire concerns, but such storms also raise the risk of debris flows or mudslides in burn scars, as well as flooding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

"I've never heard that before but that was heard again later in the wildfire season. That was startling," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Now only a few of the older order remained, and they no longer even pretended to trans-mute metals ... . . . but they could make wildfire.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

RAF Chinook crews have already helped respond, external to wildfires in Cyprus.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

A proposed state mandate and shrinking insurance options are pushing homeowners to turn a critical 5-foot zone around their homes into a buffer against wildfires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Records for the number of reported wildfires were also broken in 2022 and 2025 - but the UK's Climate Change Committee has warned the risk will rise in the coming decades.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

An outer buffer that slows wildfires by thinning dense trees, clearing dead brush, and breaking up continuous vegetation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

But if the giant sequoias—trees that had evolved not just to withstand wildfires but to thrive in them—if the giant sequoias were burning, the cycle was broken.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz