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Yup that's massive. According to [1] the biggest fires in the US were the 2014 Northwest Territories fires which burned 8 million acres or ~12,500 square miles.
by akiselev 5y ago
Yup that's massive. According to [1] the biggest fires in the US were the 2014 Northwest Territories fires which burned 8 million acres or ~12,500 square miles. 98,466 sq mi is more area than all of the wildfires in the United States going back to 2007 COMBINED.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires
- SpaceNugget 5y agoThat's not in the US. The Northwest Territories are in Canada. The largest fire in the US on that list is the 2020 California wildfire at ~6,900 square miles.