California Wildfire 2000-2025

California Wildfire 2000-2025

This week’s visualization is based on CA Open Data and compares California wildfire perimeter records and mapped acres from 2000 through 2025.

My Visualization

This visualization tracks California wildfire activity across recent years, making the recent spikes in mapped acres easy to compare against the number of fire records.

Dashboard link

AI-assisted Visualization

Below is an AI-assisted Plotly bar chart that ranks California mapped fire perimeter acres by decade and highlights the partial 2020-2025 period.

Plotly dashboard link

Insights

• The 2020-2025 period already has 8.81 million mapped perimeter acres, higher than any full decade since 1950;
• The 2010s and 2000s are the next-highest decade groups, showing how recent decades dominate the ranked acreage view.

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