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Reno Has Long Known of Wildfire Risk. The Hawk Fire Proved It’s Real.

The Sierra Nevada region is a hot spot for wildfires and some see the Hawk fire as providing an impetus for hardening communities against catastrophe.

© Ian C. Bates for The New York Times

The Hawk fire, burning in Reno, Nev., has destroyed structures and kept people out of their homes.
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‘You can taste the ash’: surviving in America’s wildfire smoke capital

A magical corner of Oregon has the highest US rate of wildfire smoke deaths. How do residents live with the haze – and grief?

Driving into the county, you can’t miss the sign.

“IT’S THE CLIMATE”.

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© Photograph: Ricardo Nagaoka/The Guardian

© Photograph: Ricardo Nagaoka/The Guardian

© Photograph: Ricardo Nagaoka/The Guardian

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