30 Years of Wildfire Data Displays Which States are Most Susceptible to Climate Change

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Frequency and size of wildfires continues to change in the United States with climate change. It is predicted that about half of the amount of burned acreage would have been burned without the existence of climate change (Pierre-louis & Popovich 2018). In addition, less snowpack in the winters has led to a smaller amount of water available in the summer. With all of these factors put together, wildfires continue to increase.

The data used in this analysis is a spatial database of wildfires in the US from 1992 to 2020. In the data, there is discovery date, final fire size, and point location.

Below is a map showing the number of fires per million acres in each state in the continental United States.

Citations

Pierre-louis, K., Popovich, N. (2018, November 27). Climate change is fueling wildfires nationwide, New Report warns. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/27/climate/wildfire-global-warming.html

State boundaries retrieved from SnowEx Hackweek.

Fire data retrieved from USDA.