US Wildfire Acres Burned · Year to Date

## What this measures

Acres burned by wildland fire in the United States from January 1 to the date, as reported in the NIFC National Fire News.

## Why it matters

Fire is the hazard that reaches insurance, timber, power-line liability, and air quality in the same season. The year-to-date acreage against the ten-year average is how the fire community itself judges the year.

## How to read it

Cumulative and seasonal — it can only rise within a year, and most of it arrives June to September. Read against the same date in prior years; NIFC publishes those comparisons and we store them on their own dates.

## What it does not say

Acres are not damage. A million acres of Alaskan tundra and ten thousand acres of California suburb are not the same event.

## Source

NIFC National Fire News year-to-date statistics. Public, updated most mornings in fire season.