All of us were affected
Hurricane Helene reached Category 4 before making landfall in Florida. (Image courtesy of NOAA)
Only a month after the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, another anniversary comes due for a different catastrophic storm—it is the first anniversary after Hurricane Helene devastated the…
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Salvaging success
When a tornado swept through the Sabine National Forest in March 2025, it left behind a trail of broken trees, downed limbs and hundreds of acres of damaged timber. But in just 28 days, the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, turned destruction into opportunity by mobilizing resources, assessing the damage and awarding two salvage stewardship sales to help…
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When Snow Becomes Deadly: How to survive an Avalanche Forecast, Tools, and Training
Every year roughly 100,000 avalanches sweep down mountains across the U.S., damaging everything in their path and killing 28 people on average. In fewer than seven weeks, beginning on Dec. 18, 2020, avalanches took the lives of seven people in the U.S while skiing, snowboarding, and snowmobiling.We asked Simon Trautman, a national avalanche…
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Fire Forecasting
Predictive Services provides decision-support information to the U.S. Forest Service and other federal, tribal, state, and local wildland fire management agencies for operational management of and strategic planning for wildland firefighting assets, such as firefighters, aircraft, and engines.Predictive Services units are located at the National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC) at the…