Wildfire News and Blog

The wildfires that are widespread and damaging enough to make the national news often take place in California. In 2020 — the state’s worst wildfire season on record — 4,092,151 acres burned, accounting for 4.10% of the large state’s total area.  Many homes and commercial buildings, wildlife habitats and ecosystems, … Read more

If you’ve caught any wildfire news over the past couple of years, you’ll have noticed that fires are burning more intensely and for longer these days. Take the Cameron Peak Fire in Colorado in 2020, for instance. It raged on from August to December as scores of firefighters struggled to … Read more

Unfortunately, the recent trend of regular, devastating wildfires isn’t going anywhere. According to the latest scientific evidence, they’re a problem that’s only going to get worse as time goes on.  The UN Environment Program (UNEP) and GRID-Arendal, an environmental education nonprofit, released a report together earlier this year on the … Read more

Clayton, MO 23 March 2022 – Perimeter Solutions (NYSE: PRM), a leading global manufacturer of high-quality firefighting products and lubricant additives, announced today that it is partnering with Ember Defense, an all-inclusive home-hardening provider and one of the leading wildfire preparedness companies in the country, to professionally treat properties with PHOS-CHEK® FORTIFY®, an … Read more

This winter season was quite the roller coaster with promising storms hammering the west coast in October and then December. Tahoe saw snow records nearly broken with more than three feet falling over December 26 and 27, 2021. Rain in the Bay Area saw an average of six to seven … Read more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: RENO, NV (March 21, 2022): Wildfires are not a unique issue to the United States. While the world is seeing an increase in both the number and the severity of wildfires, Canada and Australia are some of the hardest-hit countries. It’s not surprising then that two of … Read more