The Code Council extends its support and assistance to jurisdictions affected by another unprecedented wildfire season. So far this year, wildfires have caused at least 13 deaths and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses across the U.S.:

• The wildfire season began in January with one fatality and at least 29 homes burned near Reno, Nevada.
• Eleven fatalities were reported in Florida as a result of smoke on a major highway.
• In early spring, Boston and Chicago had front-page newspaper accounts of wildland urban interface fires in locations not so accustomed to wildfires.
• In April, in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, a wildfire destroyed four buildings and 48 vacation condominiums.
• A wildfire in New Mexico destroyed more than 300 homes and businesses and blackened more than 463 square miles. It was the largest wildfire in state history.
• More fires continued in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming. In Colorado, a fire near Fort Collins destroyed 191 homes and is blamed for one death.
• A small but destructive wildfire earlier this month near Boise, Idaho, destroyed six homes and five outbuildings.
• Also earlier this month, Hawaii had its largest wildfire of the season that scorched 5,200 acres on the Big Island and threatened hundreds of homes.