Wildfires, storms fuel 2025 insured losses of $108 billion, Munich Re says

Global insured losses from natural disasters fell to $108 billion last year, according to German-based Munich Re officials, which represented a drop compared with an inflation-adjusted $147 billion in 2024.

Wildfires, storms fuel 2025 insured losses of $108 billion, Munich Re says

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Interior to Launch U.S. Wildland Fire Service

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Brian Fennessy, former Fire Chief at Orange County Fire Authority, said that the Department of the Interior is taking the next step to establish the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, as he oversees the implementation of the new service with the vision of unifying the wildland fire management programs across the Department’s bureaus and offices.

Interior to Launch U.S. Wildland Fire Service

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New way of monitoring wildfire could take flight

An associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at South Carolina's Clemson University found that artificial intelligence can learn to estimate heat by studying patterns in ordinary red-green-blue (RGB) images captured by cameras on drones, allowing future drones to use lighter-weight and less power-hungry cameras to map wildfires.

New way of monitoring wildfire could take flight

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Bentz presses Senate to pass Fix our Forests Act to lower wildfire risks

Rep. Cliff Bentz called on the U.S. Senate to immediately pass the Fix Our Forests Act, which has been passed by the House of Representatives, during a Senate Natural Resources subcommittee hearing in Washington D.C., arguing that government delays in forest management are endangering thousands of lives.

Bentz presses Senate to pass Fix our Forests Act to lower wildfire risks

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‘Wildland Fire Service’ stalled pending further study

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Hunter Bassler, a Journalist at the IAWF's Wildfire Today, reported that Democratic and Republican lawmakers blocked President Trump's executive order to combine the firefighting branches of five agencies into the new Wildland Fire Service, opting instead to maintain the current wildland firefighting structure in their new funding bills.

‘Wildland Fire Service’ stalled pending further study

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Can any vehicle help fight a wildfire? A federal pilot program is working to find out

The Department of the Interior has awarded $5 million to 97 emergency response agencies across 26 states taking part in the Slip-on Tanker pilot program to bring wildfire-grade water tankers to remote emergency response agencies.

Can any vehicle help fight a wildfire? A federal pilot program is working to find out

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Global estimation of post-fire soil erosion

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience provides a global assessment of post-fire soil erosion, considering cumulative wildfire-driven geomorphological changes over the last two decades.

Global estimation of post-fire soil erosion

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