File:Wildfire acres burned in the United States, OWID.svg

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English: :Wildfire acres burned in the United States

Number of acres of wildfire burned in a given year in the United States. This is shown from 1983 onwards, when consistent reporting began. Data prior to 1983 is reported by the NIFC to not be comparable to that thereafter.

Version 6: (uploaded 2024-06-19)

Data source: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/wildfires

Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20240618191535/https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/wildfires

Version 2 (uploaded 2021-10-11):

Data source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/acres-burned-usa .... Which cites its sources:

- Data published by National Interagency Coordination Center; National Interagency Fire Center

- https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_stats_totalFires.html

Version 4: (uploaded 2023-05-20)

Data source: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/wildfires

Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20230514150211/https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/wildfires

Uploader computed ten-year average using Excel spreadsheet
Uploader generated the SVG code for the Version Two graph using the column charts and line charts spreadsheets at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG

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Nederlands: Het aantal acres (0,4 ha) dat in een bepaald jaar in de Verenigde Staten in vlammen opgaat. Cijfers vanaf 1983, toen de consistente rapportage begon. Gegevens vóór 1983 worden door het NIFC gerapporteerd, en zijn niet vergelijkbaar die daarna.

Date

2020 (chart creation)

Source

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/acres-burned-usa

Author

Our World In Data

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:38, 17 October 2024	1,000 × 750 (4 KB)	RCraig09	Version 7: lighten background color to be consistent with various other graphics
	20:54, 19 June 2024	1,000 × 750 (4 KB)	RCraig09	Version 6: update to include 2023 data . . . change background color scheme
	16:59, 15 June 2023	1,000 × 750 (4 KB)	RCraig09	Version 5: adding gray colored area under black 10MA trace
	20:38, 20 May 2023	1,000 × 750 (4 KB)	RCraig09	Version 4: update to include 2021 and 2022 data . . . manually optimize SVG code a bit
	16:55, 12 October 2021	1,000 × 750 (4 KB)	RCraig09	Version 3: Changing title . . . changing shape of red rectangle in legend
	18:13, 11 October 2021	1,000 × 750 (4 KB)	RCraig09	Version 2: updated to include data through 2020 . . . . added 10-year moving average . . . . more concise SVG coding . . . removing extraneous commentary
	00:54, 12 February 2020	850 × 600 (9 KB)	Fæ	OWID project #2130