People Cause Most U.S. Wildfires

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According to a study published in February 2017 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 84 percent of the blazes that firefighters were called to fight between 1992 and 2012 were ignited by people.

Source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov

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