Wildfires in California are getting both larger and more destructive. A simple but informative graphic from the San Francisco illustrates the scope of the destruction.
The Digital Team at the San Francisco Chronicle is helping readers understand the immense size of the largest fire currently burning in North California, the Kincade Fire, as well as the massive size of fires that have burned through the state in recent years.
Providing context, and smaller than every single fire is the city of San Francisco, famously (but erroneously) measured seven miles by seven miles for a total of 49 square miles. It should be noted that San Francisco is not the location of any of the current wildfires, like a post by Time magazine suggested yesterday.
Correction: As fires continue to ravage different parts of California, watch as firefighters face massive flames in Sonoma County. A previous version of this video misstated the location of this fire. It is in Sonoma County, not San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/LHerVw1sP5
— TIME (@TIME) October 29, 2019
For more perspective on California's fires, see also an article by Alissa Walker that reminds California's critics of the state's role as a leader on climate change, with proof in the form of reduced carbon emissions.
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