Friday, August 16, 2019

US Forest Fire Festival 2019 Update


From 1/1/19 to 8/3/19, we’ve had 27,606 fires in the US destroying 3,310,790 acres. As of 8/3/19, we have 93 large fires affecting 1,720,079 acres with 45 fires in Alaska and the other 48 fires all on the west coast including Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington. These are the traditional fire festival revelers.

The 10 year average from 2009 to 2018 was 39,397 fires destroying 4,155,217 acres.

The East coast rarely participates in this annual festival, because most of the forests on the East coast are owned and maintained by private sector family tree farmers, who live on their properties.


Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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