Fewer wildfires burn in North American forests today than in previous centuries, increasing the risk of more severe wildfires ...

Fire scars are small wounds made when fires burn near trees but don’t kill them. They provide rich details about past wildfires and their underlying causes, says Chris Guiterman at the ...

In the wild, you can sometimes see scars in the rings from where a tree was in a fire. I counted the rings on a large pine ...

Not only that, the heat of the fire actually burns and damages the soil, creating a water-repellent, or hydrophobic, layer. What once was a vegetated hillslope, with leaves and trees to intercept rain ...