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> Wildfires at at relatively low levels, historically. US burn acreage is about 10M acres per year at the moment, same as it was in 1955. During the hot dustbow
by kergonath 1y ago
> Wildfires at at relatively low levels, historically. US burn acreage is about 10M acres per year at the moment, same as it was in 1955. During the hot dustbowl years burn acreage was as high as 50M/year.
The world is bigger than the US. FFS...
- mike_hearn 1y agoIt's true worldwide: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-burned-area-by-landcover https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-burned-area-by-lan... Wildfires have been decreasing globally for over 20 years.