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Last modified 2025/01/01
Data source: National Interagency Fire Center for 1983-2024 and for 2025. NIFC gives a note that "Prior to 1983, the federal wildland fire agencies did not track official wildfire data using current reporting processes. As a result, there is no official data prior to 1983 posted on this site." However, I show you 1970-1982 data obtained from the NIFC site in 2021 not to give some impression that the wildfires were very few before 1982.
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Last modified 2025/01/01
Data source: National Interagency Fire Center for 1983-2024 and for 2025. NIFC gives a note that "Prior to 1983, the federal wildland fire agencies did not track official wildfire data using current reporting processes. As a result, there is no official data prior to 1983 posted on this site." However, I show you 1970-1982 data obtained from the NIFC site in 2021 not to give some impression that the wildfires were very few before 1982.
For California fires CAL FIRE home page
Recent Notable Wildfires
- U.S. and Canada
- 2025 Greater Los Angeles Wildfires (0.058 million acres burned & 16.3 thousand structures distroyed as of 2025/02/01)
- 2024 Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas (1.1 million acres)
- 2020 "2020 California Wildfires" (4.3 million acres, i.e. 4.2% of CA land area burned.)
- 2020 "2020 Oregon Wildfires" (1.0 million acres)
- 2020 August Complex Fire in California (1.0 million acres)
- 2023 Canadian Wildfires (45.7 million acres)
- 2018 "2018 British Columbia Wildfires" (3.3 million acres)
- 2017 "2017 British Columbia Wildfires" (3.0 million acres)
- 2014 "2014 Northwest Territories Fires" (8.4 million acres)
- Outside U.S. and Canada
- 2020 Russian Wildfires (35 million acres)
- 2019-20 Australian Bushfire Season (46 million acres)