U.S. acres burned by wildfire events 2000-2016
This statistic displays the annual number of acres burned by wildfire activity in the United States from 2000 to 2016. In 2002, some 7.2 million acres of land was burned in wildfires in the United States. In 2015, wildfires in the United States burned more acres in total and per fire than double the 1983 to 2013 average.