For those that don’t know, FEMA is the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It is tasked with leading disaster response and recovery efforts. FEMA disasters are declared by the federal government at the request of state governments who may feel that they lack the resources to deal with a disaster. Some disaster declarations cover multiple counties.
Any proof that the relationship to West Coast fires is their differences in Forestry Management compared to the East coast? Trump said this last time they had huge fires and I don’t know if it was ever fact checked
The more I study ecology, the more I realize that fires are not only good, but they aren’t happening enough!
Fire prevention is making these fires even more extreme.
My mom lives in one of the counties on that list… Okanogan, WA. I have 3 siblings and I’m the only one that has never been a forest fire fighter.
Wouldn’t the size of the county affect their number, with larger counties being overly represented?
![[OC] FEMA Wildfire Disasters Since 2000 by County](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1748449390_clpi8m24bi3f1-1920x1024.jpeg)
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Data: [https://www.fema.gov/openfema-data-page/disaster-declarations-summaries-v2](https://www.fema.gov/openfema-data-page/disaster-declarations-summaries-v2)
Tools: R (packages: dplyr, ggplot2, sf, usmap, tools, ggfx, grid, scales)
For those that don’t know, FEMA is the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It is tasked with leading disaster response and recovery efforts. FEMA disasters are declared by the federal government at the request of state governments who may feel that they lack the resources to deal with a disaster. Some disaster declarations cover multiple counties.
Any proof that the relationship to West Coast fires is their differences in Forestry Management compared to the East coast? Trump said this last time they had huge fires and I don’t know if it was ever fact checked
The more I study ecology, the more I realize that fires are not only good, but they aren’t happening enough!
Fire prevention is making these fires even more extreme.
My mom lives in one of the counties on that list… Okanogan, WA. I have 3 siblings and I’m the only one that has never been a forest fire fighter.
Wouldn’t the size of the county affect their number, with larger counties being overly represented?
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