WIRED ScienceThe Delicate Art—and Evolving Science—of Wildfire Evacuations
Published Nov 6, 2019, 5:13 PM
On the evening of October 23, in the middle of the kind of dry, windy night that has become more frequent and more terrifying in recent California autumns, a fire began outside the small unincorporated Northern California town of Geyserville. Over the next two days, as winds reached hurricane-like strength, they carried the fire south, burning some 75,000 acres and threatening some 90,000 structures as of Wednesday afternoon.
