This also helps protect lives and health, and reduces environmental impacts compared with traditional methods suppressing wildfires once they have already started.
What the Researchers Found
The researchers used treated and untreated models to compare wildfire behavior. They have found that fuel treatment measures such as forest thinning and prescribed burns prevented $2.8 billion in losses while also reducing wildfire spread and fire severity.
These strategies also reduced wildfire damage and impacts by limiting structure loss, cutting carbon dioxide emissions, and lowering exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5).
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