Millions of Hectares Burned by Wildfire and Prescribed fire in the West, 1999-2020 | Created with Datawrapper *Wildfire affects an order-of-magnitude more area than prescribed fire.* Wildfire area burned includes all fires with an emergency response, regardless of ignition source, summed over 1999-2020; data ...

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Home and structure loss by ignition source in the West (1999-2020) | Created with Datawrapper Data from Higuera et al. (2023), PNAS Nexus

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Area burned by ignition source in the West (1999-2020) | Created with Datawrapper Data from Higuera et al. (2023), PNAS Nexus

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Human-related ignitions are responsible for the majority of structure loss in the in the West (1999-2020) | Created with Datawrapper Data from Higuera et al. (2023), PNAS Nexus

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88% of wildfires in the West resulted in no structure loss (1999-2020) | Created with Datawrapper Data from Higuera et al. (2023), PNAS Nexus

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Lightning is responsible for the majority of area burned by wildfires in the West (1999-2020) | Created with Datawrapper Data from Higuera et al. (2023), PNAS Nexus

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Cutting funding for science hurts Montana’s economy and our future | Opinion Opinion: If proposed cuts remain in place, research will be massively curtailed, will no longer be led by Montanans, and will not contribute the societal, economic benefits to our state.

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