National Interagency Fire Center
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Currently, nine large fires have burned 583,568 acres in five states. More than 6,100 support personnel are assigned to #wildfires across the country. Eight Type 1 and Type 2 incident management teams and one complex incident management team are assigned to large fires in the Southwest, Rocky Mountain, and Southern areas.
To date humans have caused 25,397 wildfires that burned 1,764,137 acres. Lightning accounts for 1,009 wildfires and 15,853 acres burned.