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[โ€“] inasaba@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Number of fires is honestly a terrible metric: you could have 1000 fires the each the size of a backyard and it would sound worse than one fire the size of New Brunswick, but the latter is obviously worse.

Looking at the amount of area burned, this is the worst fire season on record so far.

[โ€“] omgarm@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah you''re right. Thanks for the info!