Wildfire acres burned by state since 1984
Alaska leads with 38.4 million acres since 1984, then California and Idaho. Measured against land area, Idaho leads, with burned acres equal to 34% of the state.
Every state
Share of land can count the same ground twice if it burned more than once. 4 states with no mapped large fire are left out.
Million acres burned since 1984, top 12 states
| Alaska | 38,445,572 | 10.5 |
| California | 25,241,665 | 25.3 |
| Idaho | 18,044,092 | 34.1 |
| Oregon | 15,054,403 | 24.5 |
| Nevada | 12,817,113 | 18.2 |
| Texas | 10,440,752 | 6.2 |
| Montana | 9,829,614 | 10.6 |
| Arizona | 8,938,521 | 12.3 |
| New Mexico | 7,819,549 | 10.1 |
| Washington | 7,465,291 | 17.6 |
| Florida | 7,182,520 | 20.9 |
| Utah | 5,463,599 | 10.3 |
| Wyoming | 4,882,054 | 7.9 |
| Oklahoma | 4,717,921 | 10.7 |
| Colorado | 3,165,045 | 4.8 |
| Kansas | 2,546,942 | 4.9 |
| Nebraska | 2,024,671 | 4.1 |
| Georgia | 1,575,090 | 4.3 |
| Minnesota | 1,465,163 | 2.9 |
| South Dakota | 1,249,709 | 2.6 |
| Kentucky | 1,043,058 | 4.1 |
| West Virginia | 989,911 | 6.4 |
| Louisiana | 700,520 | 2.5 |
| North Carolina | 650,285 | 2.1 |
| Mississippi | 578,988 | 1.9 |
| North Dakota | 420,906 | 1.0 |
| Arkansas | 394,811 | 1.2 |
| South Carolina | 367,390 | 1.9 |
| Missouri | 313,741 | 0.7 |
| Tennessee | 268,000 | 1.0 |
| Virginia | 239,021 | 0.9 |
| Hawaii | 167,539 | 4.1 |
| Alabama | 166,382 | 0.5 |
| New Jersey | 160,803 | 3.4 |
| Michigan | 127,978 | 0.4 |
| Indiana | 61,357 | 0.3 |
| Maryland | 56,424 | 0.9 |
| New York | 39,042 | 0.1 |
| Wisconsin | 37,119 | 0.1 |
| Pennsylvania | 24,582 | 0.1 |
| Iowa | 10,931 | 0.0 |
| Delaware | 6,038 | 0.5 |
| Ohio | 5,649 | 0.0 |
| Massachusetts | 3,840 | 0.1 |
| Maine | 3,432 | 0.0 |
| Illinois | 3,266 | 0.0 |