alt Hacker News> 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...
> 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...
It's true worldwide:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-burned-area-by-lan...
Wildfires have been decreasing globally for over 20 years.