[jfries]

It's disingenuous to compare a single year vs an average like this, without going into what the distribution looks like.

Maybe years are either very calm or have lots of fires? That would result in some years being much worse than the average.

[liberte82]

Also, statistically, it's likely that in any given year, there will be some place in the world that is anomalous. You can't just pick and choose certain areas, going to a different spot each year, as evidence of a problem, you need to look at things globally.

[tarr11]

This article is confusing to me. I went to EFFIS and looked at the 2008 data. [0]

There were 13832 forest fires in Portugal alone in 2008. The avg in this chart seems far less than that...

Maybe I'm reading this wrong?

[0] https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/media/cms_page_media/40/fores...