Talk:Wildfires in the United States

Sentence moved from wildfire
I've taken out this sentence from the lead of wildfire. It seemed specific to the U.S. to me so perhaps it fits here (but I am suspicious as so many refs are used): "Aggressive wildfire suppression aimed at minimizing fire and ending  traditional land management methods practiced by indigenous peoples has contributed to accumulation of fuel loads, increasing the risk of large, catastrophic fires, especially in certain colonial contexts like the United States.            " EMsmile (talk) 12:06, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Misleading graph showing acreage burnt
According to https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/15/heartland-institute/no-wildfires-werent-bigger-1920s-and-30s-today/, the first graph on this page is misleading, as the early counts suffer from double or triple counting by different government agencies, and are mostly incendiary (intentional) fires. Ntean (talk) 05:35, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The Heartland Institute is notoriously unreliable on issues related to climate change (includes wildfires), so that institute's critique isn't a convincing reason to remove the chart. However, presumably you're referring to File:US Burn Acreage 1916-2010.png, which is now 13 years outdated and may be argued to be obsolete. It may be obsolete but provides a longer-term perspective, so I'm neutral on retaining or deleting it. — RCraig09 (talk) 18:12, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The graph implies areas of the size of a typical state burned each year in the past. Measurement methods were inconsistent until the 80s, and now https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/fire/wofambrief/firestats only goes back to 1983. https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-how-global-warming-has-increased-us-wildfires/ has another fact-check on the graph. Paculino (talk) 05:51, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

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