More than 24,000 camping reservations out of 3.2 million have been canceled across the United States this year because of wildfires, AP reports.
The big picture: The recent uptick of national park and forest closures, due in large part to a wave of intense wildfires, coincide with a post-pandemic boom in the number of people engaging in outdoor activities.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell told "Fox News Sunday" that the impacts of climate change are “the crisis of our generation."
Why it matters: Criswell's comments come after Hurricane Ida devastated much of the Northeast, causing more than 50 deaths across five states.
The death toll from Hurricane Ida and its aftermath rose to 12 in Louisiana on Saturday, Reuters reports.
The big picture: Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) said that number might continue to increase because so many people are relying on power from generators, which were blamed for four carbon monoxide deaths among the 12.
Nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced a weather disaster since June, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal disaster declarations.
Why it matters: The data underscores the extent to which climate change and a warming planet are increasingly impacting Americans' lives on a daily basis, the Post notes.
President Biden on Saturday announced that he will travel to New Jersey and New York on Tuesday to survey damage from Hurricane Ida.
Driving the news: Biden will visit Manville, New Jersey, and Queens, New York, to examine the destruction caused by the remnants of Ida, which caused extreme flooding and falling debris throughout the Northeast.
Power should be restored in New Orleans by Wednesday, Entergy, the company that provides power to New Orleans and much of southeast Louisiana, said Friday.
The big picture: Nearly 1 million people in Louisiana lost electricity as Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 storm last week.
