Written by Sarah Meier. On the research article by Sarah Meier (University of Exeter), Eric Strobl (University of Bern), and Robert J.R. Elliott (University of Birmingham): The impact of wildfire smoke exposure on excess mortality and later-life socioeconomic outcomes: The Great Fire of 1910. In the summer of 1910, a firestorm swept across the northern Rocky Mountains, consuming more than 1.2 million hectares in just two days. Known as The Big Burn or The Big Blowup, it became one of the largest wildfires in US history (shown in Figure 1). The Great Fire of 1910 burnt about the size of […]
