United States: Southwest Washington officials ordered evacuations for thousands of residents as a wind-driven wildfire rapidly grew on Sunday.
There is an unusually high number of wildfires burning in the Pacific Northwest, Intermountain West as well as Canada, as much of the Western United States faces “above normal temperatures and minimum relative humidity,” according to the National Inter-Agency Fire Center.
There are “Record high temperatures, dry weather, wildfire concerns as well as air quality issues all over the Pacific Northwest continues,” the National Weather Service mentioned in the forecast update on Monday morning.
Along with this, as per the NIFC’s latest data, Washington’s Nakia Creek Fire, nearby Camas, east of Vancouver, which prompted Sunday’s evacuation orders in one of 66 large fires in the United States.
The Clark, Emergency Services Agency expanded zones in response to the fire on Sunday, affecting at least 35,000-40,000 homes, as per the sources.
In addition, smoke from that Washington wildfire in eastern Clark County that is razed some 2,000 acres was “visible throughout the metropolitan area that Vancouver shares with Portland, Oregon,” as per the sources.
An air quality advisory remained in place for Metro Vancouver as well as the Fraser Valley in southwestern British Columbia because of the wildfires in Washington as well as Canada, as per the Metro Vancouver tweet Sunday evening.
About 24 large fires were burning in Idaho, 22-year-old in Montana, 13 in Washington, as well as five in Oregon, as per the data. California, as well as South Dakota, each state reported one large fire.
Scientific research shows climate change is a crucial factor in wildfire risk. Much of the United States of America West is at wildfire risk.
As per Axios’ Andrew Freedman, most of the United States of America is in the grip of a climate change-driven drought, which has exacerbated fire risk.
