Impact
(Society, Economy & Environment)
- Disrupts lives of workers, employers & families
- Leads to a longer term instability in local labor markets (amplifying seasonal variation in employment over the subsequent year)
- Tourism and natural resources are heavily affected in area of Wildfire
- 25% of U.S Forest Services goes to fire suppression
- Rural and resource-dependent counties due to their lack of money on fire suppression
- Acres are being lost; 7,000,000 acres (Record Breaking) have burned in wildfires in the U.S in 2012
- Contributes to "Bad Air Days" (Higher Summertime levels of Air Pollution)
- Damage to property
- Casualties/Deaths (Humans, Plants, & Animals)