California Wildfires

Annual Stats

Units in y-axis for area is "number of San Franciscos". So the largest fire in 2020 has burned and area equal to about 29 times the area of San Francisco.

Monthly Stats

"month" is the month fire started. This plot is in direct conflict with what is reported as "fire season", i.e. months of October and November. Most fires seem to start in July and August.

Number of fires by County

Fire Area by County

This excludes multi-county fires, as the total area burned is very, very large.

Twenty largest fires

Usage

• $python run.py This script will download data (saved to data/) and generate plots (saved to images/).