After a wildfire, Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Teams must rapidly assess the threat from post-fire erosion and runoff due to the removal ... fire-induced changes in vegetative cover and soil ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved $3 million in funds, allocated from the county's Lead Paint Hazard ...

Not only that, the heat of the fire actually burns and damages the soil ... climate and erosion rates estimate that the amount of sediment flowing downhill after fires will increase by more ...

The effects of wildfire ash on soil properties ... The impact of slope angle on ash erosion was minimal. About 80% of the ash applied to the surfaces is retained after rainfall across different slope ...

Ashy wildfire sediment on Los Angeles County beaches does not contain chemicals at a level that pose a danger to human health ...

The goal is to create a physics-informed machine learning model of soil burn severity that not only predicts wildfire impacts on soil and informs post-fire hazard mitigation, but also answers ...

Echoing an earlier request from the state, local lawmakers have renewed a call for FEMA to reconsider its policy not to test soil of fire-scorched land. But the answer is the same: It’s not ...

Soil testing revealed concerning levels of lead on properties downwind of the Eaton fire, as well as isolated "hot spots" of ...

The recent wildfires that swept across the Gyeongsang provinces and other parts of the country burned a record 48,239 hectares (119,201 acres) of land, according to data compiled on Monday.