100% of California at Risk for Wildfires

Friday, 16 May 2014 | by Pat's Picks

For the first time in a century, the entire state of California is said to be in a state of severe drought. That has elevated the risk of wildfires substantially. Already thousands of homes have been destroyed from at least nine fires in southern California. A climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center says a similar drought occurred in 1976-77, but the effects of this one are more severe because California’s population has doubled since then while the water supply has remained the same.

SOURCE: USA Today