{"id":9404,"date":"2016-12-08T16:02:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9404"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:02:25","slug":"the-southeast-is-becoming-a-wildfire-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/12\/the-southeast-is-becoming-a-wildfire-hotspot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Southeast is becoming a wildfire hotspot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most people think of wildfires as a Western phenomenon, events this year have pointed out that the Southeast is also an area that is ripe for wildfires. \u00a0An recent article by Lyndsey Gilpin at <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-southeast-is-becoming-a-wildfire-hotspot\/\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-southeast-is-becoming-a-wildfire-hotspot\/<\/a>\u00a0describes the increases in wildfires in the Southeast over time. \u00a0The article discusses whether wildfires are becoming more frequent and how they are linked to changes in climate as well as changes in land management.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/GA-forest-fire-11-11-2016-ffc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9093\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/GA-forest-fire-11-11-2016-ffc-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/GA-forest-fire-11-11-2016-ffc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/GA-forest-fire-11-11-2016-ffc-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/GA-forest-fire-11-11-2016-ffc.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most people think of wildfires as a Western phenomenon, events this year have pointed out that the Southeast is also an area that is ripe for wildfires. \u00a0An recent article by Lyndsey Gilpin at https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-southeast-is-becoming-a-wildfire-hotspot\/\u00a0describes the increases in wildfires in the Southeast over time. \u00a0The article discusses whether wildfires are becoming more frequent and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":9093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9405,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions\/9405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}