{"id":5744,"date":"2016-01-14T23:58:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T04:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5744"},"modified":"2016-01-14T23:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T04:58:16","slug":"2015-worst-year-on-record-for-us-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/2015-worst-year-on-record-for-us-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 worst year on record for US wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>EarthSky<\/em> reported recently that 2015 was the worst year on record for wildfires in the United States, based on area covered. \u00a0Estimates by the National Interagency Fire Center were that more than 10 million acres burned. \u00a0Many of those were in the western US, which has been plagued by severe drought and high temperatures this year. \u00a0You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/2015-worst-us-wildfire-year-on-record?utm_content=bufferae6de&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The final report on the 2015 season will be released later this spring.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1330\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Trees_torching_-_High_Park_Wildfire.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1330\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1330\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Trees_torching_-_High_Park_Wildfire-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Trees_torching_-_High_Park_Wildfire-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Trees_torching_-_High_Park_Wildfire-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Trees_torching_-_High_Park_Wildfire.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EarthSky reported recently that 2015 was the worst year on record for wildfires in the United States, based on area covered. \u00a0Estimates by the National Interagency Fire Center were that more than 10 million acres burned. \u00a0Many of those were in the western US, which has been plagued by severe drought and high temperatures this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5745,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions\/5745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}