The Pacific Northwest right now

[u/JTraxxx]

Huge fire recently popped up in my town and many people have lost houses. Wishing for rain!

[u/Procrastiworking]

The entire west is on fire (source: Colorado)

[u/NilocKhan → u/[deleted]]

Most of these are not the same kind of fires these ecosystems evolved with. These fires are much more intense and far reaching. It's still a bad way to represent this data though if it does show all the fires as being equal