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U.S. wildfires - number of fires and acres burned 2017

Number of fires and acres burned due to U.S. wildfires in 2017, by state

The data displays the number of fires and acres burned due to U.S. wildfires in 2017, by state. In that year, 97 wildfires occurred in Connecticut, which accounted for 243 acres of burned land. In total, there were 71,499 wildfires reported in the U.S., burning about 10.03 million acres of land.

Montana	2422	1366498
Nevada	768	1329289
California	9560	1266224
Texas	9827	734682
Oregon	2049	714520
Idaho	1598	686262
Alaska	364	653023
Oklahoma	1906	502625
Kansas	71	476306
Arizona	2321	429564
Washington	1346	404223
Florida	3280	298831
Utah	1166	249829
Georgia	3929	200785
New Mexico	813	141663
Colorado	967	111667
Wyoming	599	90115
South Dakota	1420	77356
North Carolina	5125	46507
Mississippi	2775	40595
Arkansas	1706	34624
Kentucky	892	28927
Vermont	1522	20194
Alabama	1254	20192
North Dakota	1086	19841
Louisiana	1064	11356
South Carolina	1092	11041
Missouri	3398	8459
Iowa	427	7216
Tennessee	593	6949
Wisconsin	520	6866
Minnesota	1036	5553
New Jersey	735	5144
Nebraska	49	3160
Maryland	108	2178
Hawaii	3	2098
Pennsylvania	537	1652
Massachusetts	1216	844
Michigan	270	736
Ohio	68	733
West Virginia	696	661
Indiana	22	553
Maine	489	369
Connecticut	97	243
New York	57	191
New Hampshire	36	123
Illinois	13	98
Virginia	55	50
Rhode Island	31	30
Delaware	5	6

U.S. wildfires - number of fires and acres burned 2017

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