The year 2020 will be remembered for being a very trying year and western wildfires have just added to the year’s woes. So far in 2020, California has experienced 7,606 fires and those fires have consumed 2.3 million acres. Washington and Oregon have also been hard hit by wildfires. Over 300,000 acres are reported to be burning. Four towns in Oregon have been mostly destroyed by the wildfire devastation. The town of Malden in Washington was also destroyed. And a wildfire meteorologist with the National Interagency Fire Center, Nick Nausler, tweeted that the U.S. has not seen this level of wildfire activity since the “Big Blowup” of 1910.
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Source: Phys.org