The 2017 US wildfire season is off to alarming start, with thousands of individual fires having scorched through 2 million acres since the start of the year. That’s nearly 10 times more land burned than what’s typically seen at this stage of the season—and a troubling sign of things to come.
Source: Gizmodo – Wildfires Have Already Toasted a Staggering Amount of Land in the US This Year