The Delicate Art—and Evolving Science—of Wildfire Evacuations

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

• Episode: The Delicate Art—and Evolving Science—of Wildfire Evacuations
• Website: WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More
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• Duration: 00:07:04
• Published: 2019-11-06 23:13

On the evening of October 23, in the middle of the kind of dry, windy night that has become more frequent and more terrifying in recent California autumns, a fire began outside the small unincorporated Northern California town of Geyserville. Over the next two days, as winds reached hurricane-like strength, they carried the fire south, burning some 75,000 acres and threatening some 90,000 structures as of Wednesday afternoon.