www.nifc.gov
Over 6 million acres have now burned, highest # YTD in at least a decade.
Canada at about 10 million acres burned. Willing to bet that North America is not below average. Far from it.
interestingly, in Canada, the forests are so large that they estimate only about half the fires are caused by humans -- and many of the largest are caused by lighting strikes in remote areas where it is difficult to to fight the fire or even worth it to commit the resources. In the US and probably anywhere else with more population, humans are the main cause.
Also interesting is that N California had massive fires in 20/21, which burned a lot of the fuel and since then it has been much less. This cycle has gone on forever.
We do have a significant drought in the SW and Lake Mead is too low. How this extends to forest fires I will leave up to you but it is totally moronic to grow water intensive alfalfa in the Imperial Valley with Lake Mead where it is at. And then not even charge competitive rates for the water.
I wish my ancestors started irrigating the California desert 100-150 years ago so I had water rights, it would be a lifetime guaranteed income from the government. Kinda socialist