[monkeynotes]

I read it as less than 1% of all land that has burned this year. Not 1% of all land in the US. Can you imagine if 1% of the entire of the US burned!

[firethrowaway]

There are 1.9 billion acres in the contiguous US, making 1% about 19 million acres.

a bad wildfire year is ~10 million acres or ~0.5% (https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/IF10244.pdf). It seems conceivable that we surpass that significantly this year.

[monkeynotes]

Wow. Really puts it into perspective. That's equivalent to approx. the four smallest states all burned out.