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A comment on U.S. Wildfire Causes 1980-2016.

Re:U.S. Wildfire Causes 1980-2016 by stephengillie on Thursday December 14, 2017 @07:39AM (#15921791)
This is a huge amount of data, and an interesting way to visualize. An incredible number of these appear to be started by lightning.

A set of filtering tools would be nice - to sort by year and type.

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Re:U.S. Wildfire Causes 1980-2016 by craftyguy on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:47AM (#15923800)
Before humans, lightning was THE primary way to start fire on Earth.
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