[PCA] 2015 wildfire season costliest on record

De Angelis, Patricia patricia_deangelis at fws.gov
Fri Jan 8 12:12:51 CST 2016


>From 12/23/15 Forestry Notes, National Association of Conservation Districts

The 2015 fire season cost a record $1.71 billion, according to numbers
released by the U.S. Forest Service last week. That figure tops the $1.67
billion (adjusted for inflation) spent in 2002. Fires this year also
consumed more than 9.8 million acres – close to another single-year record
for acres burned (2006). Fire records date back to 1960.

The National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) has shown support
for the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act (WDFA) and other tools aimed at
lessening the chokehold wildfire has put on the Forest Service's annual
budget. Wildfire will account for more than 50 percent of the agency's
FY2015 budget, and in October Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell projected
that number could climb to more than 65 percent over the next decade.

NACD has organized a series of wildfire workshops this fall and winter to
help conservation districts share lessons learned and partnering ideas.
Upcoming workshops will take place in Davis, California and in Boise,
Idaho. Contact NACD Western Issues Specialist Jeff Burwell
<jeffburwell520 at gmail.com> to learn more about the workshops.


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