Australia Fires Map Vs Us
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Australia fires map vs us. See current wildfires and wildfire perimeters on the Fire Weather Avalanche Center Wildfire Map. Is on top of the more than 74 fire personnel from DOI and USFS that. Sonoma County Fire District in California shared two images showing a map of the fires burning in Australia in comparison of an image.
Australia is approximately 7741220 sq km while United States is approximately 9833517 sq km making United States 27 larger than Australia. The Sonoma County Fire District posted the images on Facebook showing the number of fires in the country along with a map that superimposes Australia on top of the United States. The size of the wildfires would cover a large portion of the United States.
A map overlaying the United States with Australia amid the bushfire crisis has left Americans scratching their heads about the size of the island continent. The Sonoma County Fire District in California juxtaposed a map of Australias fires with a map of the United States showing the massive scale of Australias numerous wildfires or so some believe. American network NBC has been ridiculed on the web this week for graphically misrepresenting the bushfires in Australia but it turns out they werent as wrong as it seemed.
Meanwhile the population of Australia is 255 million people 3072 million more people live in United States. The comparison puts the hellish fires scorching Australia into perspective. In a Facebook post by the Sonoma County Fire District a map of Australias fires is juxtaposed with a map of the United States revealing just how massive the inferno is.
The graph titled Black Summer Fires compares the Mendocino Complex Fire Amazon Fires Siberian Fires and current Australian fires. Scale of Australias fires compared to map of United States of America. On 7 January the red and orange fire symbols in the MyFireWatch map of New South Wales NSW are all ranked as advice alerts by the NSW rural fire service.
In a Facebook post by the Sonoma County Fire. Two maps showing Australias deadly wildfires demonstrate just how widespread the inferno is compared to the size of the United States. The damage zone dwarfs Singapore in a comparison.