Burning California - 123 Years Of Wildfire

Earlier this calendar month the Huffington Post used information from the California Department of Forestry as well as Fire Protection to map out to a greater extent than than a century of California wildfires. Capital Public Radio has forthwith used the same information to practise their ain interactive map.

Both the Huffington Post map as well as Capital Public Radio's A History of California Wildfires map visualize the perimeters of all the wildfires inwards the solid soil from 1878 to 2018. The Capital Public Radio map even as well as thence includes a timeline which allows y'all to sentiment the compass of all the state's wildfires for every private year. This timeline allows y'all to run into that inwards recent years the scale of wildfires inwards California appears to receive got significantly grown.


In the final 123 years the equivalent of 33.8% of California has burned inwards wildfires. The Huffington Post's This Is What More Than H5N1 Century Of Wildfires In California Looks Like includes an interactive map which visualizes the scale of harm caused to California yesteryear wildfires over the years.

The Huffington Post map shows how 40% of the full acreage burnt inwards the final 123 years has truly occurred inwards only the final twenty years. While the Huffington Post map doesn't include a timeline it does purpose the even out map format to explore inwards a piffling to a greater extent than exceptional the size of the solid soil that has been involved inwards California's wildfires. It too highlights the locations of California's 3 largest fires. All of 3 of these largest fires receive got taken house inwards only the commencement few years of this century.