Sep 3, 2015

Watch Western Wildfires Burn After Years of Drought

California
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
USA
by
Geoff McGhee
,
National Geographic
Alaska in flames animation by EcoWest and the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University.
Alaska in flames animation by EcoWest and the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University.

A new interactive map shows how wildfires have ravaged the western United States in 2015 – and over the past decade.

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