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Mega Fires on the Increase

The size, frequency and cost of wildland fires is way up.

See this article, Boulder Author Warns of More 'Megafires' on Nation's Horizon, which gives great examples of how the wildland fire risks and impacts are growing.

Like other complex issues, the threat has multiple elements to the cause for more and bigger fires. All I know is that the time for doing something proactively is before you smell smoke in the air. 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.