One of the largest fires in recent history was in 1825
when a fire tore through Maine and New Brunswick, Canada,
burning 3 million acres of forest.

An average of 1.2 million acres of
US woodland burn
every year.

A large wildfire, or conflagration,
is capable of modifying the local weather conditions
(AKA producing it's own weather).

California accounted for the highest number of
structures lost in one state in 2018
due to the number of significant fires.

Contact your local planning/zoning office to find out if your
home is in a high wildfire risk area, and if there are specific
local or county ordinances you should be following.

Over the past 12 years, every state in the Western U.S.
has experienced an increase in the average number of large wildfires
per year compared to the annual average from 1980 to 2000.