New York counties most at risk for wildfires are parts of Montgomery, Schoharie, Greene, Sullivan and Ulster and all of Schenectady, Albany, Rensselaer, Columbia, Orange, Dutchess, Putnam ...

To study wildfire growth rates, Dr. Balch and her colleagues spent much of the past decade wrangling satellite readings into a giant catalog of 60,012 fires and their day-by-day movements.