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It’s Time to Redefine What a Megafire Is in the Climate Change Era

The Hawaiian town of Lahaina did not know what hit it in August 2023, when a wildfire cut a path of death and destruction from the center of the community to the Maui coastline, claiming 101 lives and destroying more than 2,200 structures. Colorado’s Marshall fire, sparked in December 2021, wrought similar destruction: driven by winds in excess of 100 mph, it traveled three miles within the hour it started and incinerated in excess of 1,000 homes.

 

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