Don't drive. Fly if you want to get a sense of the problem. We have somewhere in the range of 360 million acres of forest in the western United States, counti

Don't drive. Fly if you want to get a sense of the problem. We have somewhere in the range of 360 million acres of forest in the western United States, counting Alaska [0]. Wildfires in the US burn about 7 million acres a year [1]. > To date, 61,390 wildfires have burned 7,251,835 acres. This is the most wildfires reported to-date in the past 10 years. The number of acres burned this year is above the 10-year average of 6,859,200 acres. That's about 2% of the "western forest land" burned every year, and do recall that it grows back. We are nowhere near being out of forest to burn. [0]: https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Threats-to-Wildlife/Climate-Change/Habitats/Western-Forests https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Thr... [1]: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn