California Wildfire Acreage is Well Below Normal With Little Upward Trend: Why is the Media/Climate Activists Not Telling This Story?

This year, wildfire acreage in California has been well below average and are being eclipsed by the lightning-initiated wildfires over the Pacific Northwest.   The nearly fire-free California situation is evident satelite/ fire image from yesterday (active fires shown by the orange dots).

Lots in Washington and Oregon, very little in California.

In fact, according to official CALFIRE statistics (shown below), the total acreage this year is LESS THAN HALF of the five-year average!

The media and climate activists have been quite silent about this.  

Can you imagine if the wildfire acreage was twice the average?   The supposed connection with climate change would be on the front page.

In fact, some media and others are actively pushing the unsupported narrative:

Ready for the Truth?

Let's look at the actual wildfire data for California!  

Consider the actual burned area data for the past 30 years (below).  A period in which global warming has been occurring.

You see a large trend?   I don't.  

There was a short period in the early 2020s when unusual meteorology drove some big fires, but the wildfire numbers have declined since then.

This lack of a long-term trend in California wildfire activity actually occurred during a period of increasing human ignitions of wildfires (e.g., from powerlines, arson, etc.).

In fact, the best estimates are that humans have initiated roughly two-thirds of wildfires in California since 1992 (see below).  I suspect these ignitions have had little to do with global warming.   At the same time there there has been an invasion of non-native flammable grasses.

The bottom line is that there is no rapidly increasing globe-warming-induced wildfire trend in California.  Such claims are demonstrably false.   

Finally, let me note that you can not believe AI inquiries on this topic.

Want proof?  I asked Google Gemini whether California was having a low wildfire year (see below).  Its answer was the OPPOSITE of the truth.   

I then told it was wrong, and it admitted it was fibbing

I wish the Seattle Times, YouTube Channel climate activists, and others would be willing to look at the data and acknowledge they have been providing inaccurate information regarding the climate/wildfire connection.