Wildfires also impact aquatic ecosystems

California redwoods 'killed' by wildfire come back to life with 2,000-year-old buds — New buds are sprouting through the charred remains of California redwoods that burned in 2020, suggesting the trees are more resilient to wildfires than thought.

Private timberland from Washington to California lost billions in value due to wildfires over the past two decades — Most of the losses were not due to forests burning directly but the perception that forests could burn due to neighboring fires.

Wildfires have erased two decades' worth of air quality gains in western United States