Sentences with phrase «average number of wildfires»

The 47,000 wildfires last year may seem like a very large number — and it certainly gives global warming alarmists like Brown plenty of fodder for misleading global warming claims — but the 47,000 wildfires was less than half the average number of wildfires that occurred each year in the 1960s and 1970s.

Since 1970, the annual average number of wildfires larger than 1,000 acres has more than doubled in the western U.S..

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In the western US overall, the average annual number of wildfires that are bigger than 1,000 acres has more than doubled since 1970, according to Climate Central.

Though the number of fires has been fewer than the 10 - year average of wildfires, until this date, the extent of acreage that has been affected by the fires is significantly greater.

We found that the average number of large wildfires burning each year and the total area burning in these fires have both increased dramatically since the 1970s.

The total number of wildfires is well below the 1962 - 2013 average, and is even below the average for the past decade.

The average number of large wildfires burning across the Western U.S. each year has tripled from the 1970s to the 2010s.

Volatile catastrophe trends stemming from destructive hailstorms and wildfires are having a significant impact Colorado's homeowners insurance market — both in terms of the number of damage claims and average claims costs.