California Wildfire Numbers Are Lower Than Last Year – Here's Why
At a Glance About 570 square miles have burned so far this year.Moist weather helped tamp down early fire risk.The season has remained far below normal. About 570 square miles of land have burned in California wildfires so far this year. That compares to more than by this point in 2021 and is well below the five-year average. Why the difference? "I think the reason for that is that we really had a weird sequence of weather in California this...