Human exposure to wildfires has more than doubled in two decades – read this if you’re planning fireworks on July 4

) – Over the past two decades, a staggering  found themselves living within 3 miles (5 kilometers) of a large wildfire. Most of those residents would have had to evacuate, and many would have been exposed to smoke and emotional trauma from the fire. Nearly 600,000 of them were directly exposed to the fire, with their homes inside the wildfire perimeter. Those statistics reflect how the number of people directly exposed to wildfires more than... + full article