“In California: August Complex Fire becomes state’s biggest blaze ever at a whopping 471,000 acres.”

Jacob Bendix, professor of geography and the environment in the Maxwell School, was interviewed by USA Today for the article “In California: August Complex Fire becomes state’s biggest blaze ever at a whopping 471,000 acres.” Bendix is an expert on the geography of wildfires and says these recent fires are unprecedented in size. “We have seen multiple fires expand by tens of thousands of acres in a matter of hours, and 30 years or more ago that just wasn’t fire behavior that we saw,” says Professor Bendix.