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		cbsks on July 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundre... Are you just looking at the total number of fires in Figure 1? Figure 2 shows that annual wildfire-burned area has been increasing in the last 40 years. Figures 3, 6 and 7 also back that up.

tokai on July 5, 2021 [–]

I guess the larger the wildfires are the lower the number of individual fires are. When everything is burning there will be only one fire.

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