| The interesting graphic is the area burnt by year. If we take the years with more than 3 million hectares burnt we have some "specially hot years" falling over yearly average. This set includes: 94-95 Crimean referendum to choose between Russia or Ukraine 98 Russian financial default, start of the Yeltsin demise Ukrainian presidential elections of 1994, 2004, 2010 and 2014 (but curiously not 2019). Would be specially interesting to check if the wildfires happened after or before the elections. 2013-2014 Euromaidan. Russia anexionates Crimea. Start of the Dombas war. 2017 This is an outlier. The year of Voronenkow saying that Crimean annexation was illegal and fleeing the Duma before to be assasinated. The year of Petya also. We could probably add 2023 to this list at the end of the year In the country with the second largest expatriate Ukrainian population. Most probably happened by random (and I'm surely cherry-picking) but still a curious chain of events. I assume that the data shown in this graph is correct (I could be wrong about this). 2020 is also interesting. People at home = no wildfires |