Amount of US land burning in wildfires increasing: Report

A new study released by data-gathering platform Statista noted that the acreage burned in the United States due to wildfires has increased over the past 40 years, comparing the 1980s' and 1990s' tally of about 10-16 million acres burned in a five-year period with the 2000s-2010s, when that number increased to upwards of 30 million acres burned.

Amount of US land burning in wildfires increasing: Report

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