The graph shown in the link ends at 2021, with was apparently a somewhat bad year but not horrible, with 4 million hectares burned. Clearly, there were worse y

The graph shown in the link ends at 2021, with was apparently a somewhat bad year but not horrible, with 4 million hectares burned. Clearly, there were worse years in the past, like 1989 or 1995, when more then 7 million hectares were burned. Since 1996 no year had more than 5M hectares burned, and the graph (if you squint enough) does look like it's slightly trending down. Except, enter 2023 [1]: > As of August 17, 5,765 fires had burned 13,749,167 hectares (33,974,932 acres), about four percent of the entire forest area of Canada and more than five times the long-term average of 2.38 million ha (5.9 million acres) for that time of the year. Want to see what an updated graph looks like? Found one here [2] - scroll down to the bottom. It seems misleading to cite a graph ending at 2021 when we're seeing the graph shooting off the chart right in front of us. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Canadian_wildfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Canadian_wildfires [2] https://ciffc.net/statistics https://ciffc.net/statistics