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The West's wildfire season is already breaking records, and it's not over

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Public Discourse · Bluesky · this story as of 6d ago
12 distinct posts / 48h, matching West 12
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6d ago I do think, on the whole, that people on the west coast are way too chill about things being on fire at any given time (And this goes for any American region with extreme weather but 'wildfire se… -2.5
6d ago On Tuesday, Aug 18th at noon PT, I'll have a "lunch hour" livestream covering a wide range of topics, including Hurricane Lala's severe flash flood-related impacts on Hawaii's Big Island, rebuildin… +1.5
6d ago "The vulnerability of these national treasures and Donald Trump’s lack of stewardship is not reported on enough. This season is shaping up to be the worst wildfire season on record. The West — espe… -6.5
6d ago Fire Storm steady.substack.com/p/fire-storm... Most dangerous and INSANE. Trump took money from the West Coast states—vendetta. Oregon had 130+ wildfires last week. 30 were big fires. We were … -6.5
6d ago Links 8/17/26 Links for you. Science: More nor’easters. West Coast landslides. Raging wildfires. Here’s how El Niño could hijack the world’s weather this year.... https://mikethemadbiologist.com/… -2.5
6d ago Billionaire Michael Boren directed national wildfire resources to protect his own cabin in Idaho. It raises serious questions about his self-interested decisionmaking that pulled critical firefight… -5.5
6d ago Yeah, we knew we'd probably need some specialists. Also, for decades I thought I'd retire to a nice little place in the woods. Then I started paying attention to the increasing number of forest fir… -4.0
7d ago Closer to home... we have a bit of nastiness from smoke blowing West to East from Sorrento Valley wildfire all the way inland to the El Cajon Valley area. 🔥 Cough-Cough. Hack-Hack. 🙄 More here: w… -2.5
7d ago 🔥New in IJWF: West et al. used 29 years of wildfire ignition records and Landsat-derived herbaceous fractional cover in California, finding increasing fire occurrence in areas with >40% herbaceous… -3.0
7d ago The Trump wildfires are really devastating much of the West. -6.0
7d ago Climate change affects regions differently, producing arid conditions in the West, extreme storms and 1-in-1,000-year floods in the Midwest, and wildfire smoke plus dangerous muggy humidity on the … -5.0
7d ago Sunday, August 16, 2026 - "Sunday Paper" - Hottest week of summer coming - Lake Travis football return to practice - CapMetro: service changes beginning - Brush fire at Reveille Peak controlled … -0.5

Articles in Story

Tier Title Category Source Feeling SentimentSentiment Score (-5 to +5)
LLM-assessed emotional tone of coverage.

-5 = extremely negative/alarming
0 = neutral/factual
+5 = extremely positive/hopeful

The colored bar shows position on the scale. Emotion badge uses Plutchik's 8 primary emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation.
T2 The West's wildfire season is already breaking records, and it's not over wildfire_active wfae.org alarming, relentless, overwhelming
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T2 The West's wildfire season is already breaking records, and it's not over wildfire_active wnmufm.org alarming, overwhelmed, urgent
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T3 The West's wildfire season is already breaking records, and it's not over wildfire_active whro.org alarming, relentless, dire
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T3 The West's wildfire season is already breaking records, and it's not over wildfire_active spokanepublicradio.org alarming, devastating, relentless
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T3 The West's wildfire season is already breaking records, and it's not over wildfire_active kvnf.org alarming, relentless, overwhelming
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T3 The West's wildfire season is already breaking records, and it's not over wildfire_active kwbu.org alarming, overwhelmed, urgent
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