larue, you just posted charts that claimed they were from the NIFC when they do not show up on their site.another source
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You are totally untrustworthy.
Where did you get that chart from?
Post the link.
That chart also carries a quote that mischaracterizes those stats in a Smithsonian article.
Thomas Swetnam, professor emeritus at the University of Arizona who studies forest fires, tells Doyle Rice at USA Today that it’s not necessarily the case that more people are maliciously setting fires or that Smokey Bear has failed in his mission to educate the public. Instead, Swetnam says that climate change is the biggest driver of increased fires. An increase in drought, fuel buildup in unburned forests, earlier springs and higher temperatures are all contributing to more combustible forests. So the same actions that might have caused a small, easily extinguished fire decades ago are now creating dangerous infernos.