With all the fires burning in the western US I have been wondering how fires are classified as disasters,what I am trying to say is with hurricanes there is the Saffir-Simpson scale of 1-5,with earthquakes the Richter scale is used but I haven't found any comparable scale used to measure the devastation caused by fires,maybe because it would be next to impossible to measure the true scope of the disaster since it involves years of events related to the fires themselves. On a lighter note avalanches are rated by size (R and 1-5 and D,destructive force 1-5) so it is entirely possible to have an avalanche rated R2D2!
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