2023 US wildfire season sees total acreage burned under 3 million, far below 10-year avg. & lowest s

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2023 US wildfire season sees total acreage burned under 3 million, far below 10-year avg. & lowest since 1998
By Marc Morano
December 26, 2023
 
https://arcfieldweather.com/blog/2023/12/21/a-year-end-wrap-upus-wildfires-down-in-2023tornadoes-slightly-below-normalan-active-hurricane-season-but-most-activity-stayed-over-the-atlantic-and-other-tropical-metrics-nearly-normal

By Meteorologist Paul Dorian – Arcfield – arcfieldweather.com

2023 US Wildfire Season

The news has been quite good this year with respect to the total number of acres burned on US soil due to wildfire activity. In fact, the total acreage burned this year is under 3 million (through 12/18) which is far below the 10-year average of nearly 7 million from 2013-2022 and the lowest since 1998.


Data source: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn

One of the main contributing factors to the down year in overall US wildfire activity is the fact that it has been a mild year in California with the number of burned acres under 390,000 (as of 12/18). This value is down about 75% from the 5-year average of about 1.6 million acres burned in the Golden State (data source). The relatively mild year of 2023 follows another relatively mild year in 2022; however, the two years before that (2020, 2021) were some of the worst on record.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2023/12/26/2023-us-wildfire-season-sees-total-acreage-burned-under-3-million-far-below-10-year-avg-lowest-since-1998/