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Reply to: News roundup for Tue, Aug 09, 2022 Posted August 9, 2022

Curious about this claim above: “Not only is the McKinney fire is the largest wildfire in California so far this year, but is also the largest in the US since 1991’s Thomas Fire in Oregon.” Unless I am misunderstanding how you’re measuring size, the McKinney Fire is by far *not* the largest in the US since 1991. There have been many much larger fires in CA alone in the past three years. For example: Dixie: 963,309 acres Caldor: 221,835 acres Full CA list: https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4jandlhh/top20_acres.pdf And there were three in Colo that topped 100K in 2020.

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Reply to: News roundup for Tue, Aug 09, 2022 Posted August 9, 2022

Curious about this claim above: “Not only is the McKinney fire is the largest wildfire in California so far this year, but is also the largest in the US since 1991’s Thomas Fire in Oregon.” Unless I am misunderstanding how you’re measuring size, the McKinney Fire is by far *not* the largest in the US since 1991. There have been many much larger fires in CA alone in the past three years. For example: Dixie: 963,309 acres Caldor: 221,835 acres Full CA list: https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4jandlhh/top20_acres.pdf And there were three in Colo that topped 100K in 2020.