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I read it as less than 1% of all land that has burned this year. Not 1% of all land in the US. Can you imagine if 1% of the entire of the US burned!
by monkeynotes 6y ago
I read it as less than 1% of all land that has burned this year. Not 1% of all land in the US. Can you imagine if 1% of the entire of the US burned!
- firethrowaway 6y agoThere are 1.9 billion acres in the contiguous US, making 1% about 19 million acres. a bad wildfire year is ~10 million acres or ~0.5% (https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/IF10244.pdf https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/IF10244.pdf). It seems conceivable that we surpass that significantly this year.
- monkeynotes 6y agoWow. Really puts it into perspective. That's equivalent to approx. the four smallest states all burned out.