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==Recent Wildfires==
What has changed is that since 2000, the scale of wildfires has now become far larger. In 2000, about 300,000 acres burned in total in the state of California. By 2018, the total was almost 2 million acres. The most likely factors causing this trend is the fact the fire seasons is now historically longer than it was over the 20th century, when fires were relatively small. Additionally, many trees have also died over multi-year droughts, causing a larger fire hazard as dead trees are not cleared or left standing in forests.
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