Western U.S. wildfires have gotten less frequent, though larger

A new study published in the journal Earth’s Future shows that, although the number of wildfires burning in the Western United States each year has dropped roughly 28% over the past three decades, the annual burned area and damage from wildfires have soared.

Western U.S. wildfires have gotten less frequent, though larger

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