Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more and more important in forecasting
the size and spread of fires, in order
to facilitate the fight against forest fires.
The problem keeps getting worse: Wildfire season is starting earlier and ending later in the western half of the United States, according to the California Department of Forestry and Protection. against fires. The 2020 fire season could be the worst on record: as of December 4, 2020, there were 3,860,520 hectares burned by 52,834 separate fires. This represents around 890,000 hectares more per year than the ten-year average, and almost twice as much area as at the same time in the 2019 season.
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