There were 56,580 wildfires reported in the United States in 2023 that consumed nearly 2.7 million acres, the National Interagency Fire Center reports. This included a total of 4,318 destroyed structures, including 3,060 residences, 1,228 minor structures and 51 commercial or mixed residential structures.
Just four months into 2024, CoreLogic reports 1.75 million acres in the U.S. have been burned by wildfires, including a record-breaking wildfire in the Texas panhandle in February that burned more than 1 million acres.
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