U.S. Fires 2012 Size:17" x 22" & Shardlow

& Shardlow

Created by Manuel MonleÌÎ_n

and December 2000

Created for the United States Food Administration by Charles Livingston Bull and printed by Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho

U.S. Fires 2012 Size:17" x 22" & ShardlowRecords maintained by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and NASA both indicate that 2012 was an extraordinary year for wildfires in the United States. NIFC statistics show that more than 9. 1 million acres had burned as of November 30, 2012 the third highest total in a record that dates back to 1960. Also notable: despite the high number of acres burned in 2012, the total number of fire was low, the least on the NIFC record. Average fire