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The Virgo in me (which is all of me, lbr) is annoyed that the imprecise use of "mega" to mean "very big" now has us calling the million-acre Mendocino fire complex a "gigafire" because we had to go up a level to express the change in order of magnitude. I am not seriously proposing starting to use "kilofire", but this would be a gigafire - 1 billion out of the approximately 1.9 billion acres of the continental U.S.:
(Granted there's probably a lot of the desert southwest that would be an effective firebreak through lack of vegetation, but that would have been too much research and guesswork. I constrained to the borders with Canada and Mexico because of course antifa people aren't setting fires in Canada and Mexico has that lovely wall to protect them, right?)
(Granted there's probably a lot of the desert southwest that would be an effective firebreak through lack of vegetation, but that would have been too much research and guesswork. I constrained to the borders with Canada and Mexico because of course antifa people aren't setting fires in Canada and Mexico has that lovely wall to protect them, right?)