![Wildfires increasingly threaten oil and gas drill sites, compounding potential health risks, study says](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/wildfires-increasingly.jpg)
More than 100,000 oil and gas wells across the western U.S. are in areas burned by wildfires in recent decades, a new study has found, and some 3 million people live next to wells that in the future could be in the path of fires worsened by climate change.