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Extreme wildfires like 2020 are four to 10 times more likely in current climate, CSU study shows
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1:52Now PlayingMany factors contributed to Colorado’s largest wildfire season in 2020: Forest management and fire suppression priorities of the past led to overgrown fuels, and large patches of beetle-killed trees added to the dry fuel load.
But a new study from Colorado State University isolated just the influence of climate change.
Statistics professor Dan Cooley used a metric called the Fire Weather Index (FWI) to identify only the most extreme meteorological conditions during the 2020 wildfire season.
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