The devastating mudslides that follow forest fires
Although they might not be as deadly as hurricanes or heatwaves, landslides such as this can cost hundreds of millions of dollars in economic damage … The central region of British Columbia has always had wildfires but now the province is even seeing blazes in coastal areas. The models used to forecast inland debris flows simply wouldn’t work for these regions, where the soils and vegetation differ …. It’s a similar scenario in the United States, where fires in the past few years have scorched areas of northern California, Oregon and Washington that rarely burn.