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More than 7.5 million acres in the United States were burned by 66,255 wildfires in 2022, according to the NOAA. These numbers are not far off the 2001-2020 average of about 7 million acres burned and 68,707 wildfires, and the current record for most acres burned by wildfires is still held by 2020, in which more than 10.2 million acres burned.
In 2022, these wildfires caused an estimated $3.2 billion of damage to property in the U.S. and killed 17 people.
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Brittney Meredith-Miller
Brittney Meredith-Miller is assistant editor of PropertyCasualty360.com. She can be reached at [email protected].
