States such as California are certainly experiencing a more ferocious wildfire season this year than a relatively quiet 2023.
Combined CAL FIRE and U.S. Forest Service figures record over 1 million acres burnt in California this year, way above the 308,000 acres recorded in 2023. But this year’s figure is still below the five-year average of 1.28 million acres.
Although the size of wildfires in the northeastern U.S. states does not reach the hundreds of thousands of acres as with the West Coast, such as the Park Fire in mid-July that burned 430,000 acres in