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Created by Minoo J. using D3.js.

Methodology

In this chart, only fires larger than 1,000 acres are displayed as bubbles. Bubbles are not to scale. Fires of all sizes are included in calculations for national statistics. Scales for overlays were determined based on global minimum and maximum values for observed weather patterns.

Data and Sources

All wildfire incidence data was sourced from the U.S. Forest Service. Layers data come from NOAA's divisional mapping tool and U.S. Forest Service shapefiles. Various news sources were used to write fire season descriptions.

Maps were drawn as states and climate divisions. Some HTML elements re-used from tutorials here and here. Mapshaper and geojson.io were used for some file-type conversion. Data was processed with the help of Pandas and Python.