Number of wildfires in the U.S. 2021, by state

Published by N. Sönnichsen, Jun 21, 2022
There were over 9,000 individual wildfires in California in 2021, making it the U.S. state seeing the highest number of wildfires that year. Fires that year were particularly devastating in California, with 2.23 million acres burned due to wildfires - roughly 31 percent of all land lost in the country.

Number of wildfires in the United States in 2021, by state

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February 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

2021

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