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From Flames to Floods and the Long Road Back: The 2025 Wildfire Season From Flames to Floods and the Long Road Back: The 2025 Wildfire Season, Debris Flows, Destroyed Neighborhoods, and the “Build Back Better” Reckoning In mid-August 2025, a striking NASA-style fire map captured the scale of destruction unfolding across North America. Orange flame icons clustered heavily across western Canada—British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories—and spilled into the US Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies. A dense field of red thermal anomaly dots stretched across the central US, Great Plains, and into Mexico. The map, consistent with NASA’s FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) active fire data, showed intense activity during a 24-hour window around August 15. What the map couldn’t fully convey was the human and landscape toll that would continue long after the flames were contained: entire neighborhoods reduced to ash, ro...