WILDFIRES BY STATE, 2015
State Number of fires Number of acres burned
Alabama 3,198 47,380
Alaska 768 5,111,404
Arizona 1,662 160,152
Arkansas 1,837 26,630
California 8,745 893,362
Colorado 709 22,602
Connecticut 76 159
Delaware (1) (1)
Florida 2,422 73,432
Georgia 2,331 10,556
Hawaii 17 5,611
Idaho 1,324 804,094
Illinois 18 806
Indiana 16 868
Iowa 533 14,945
Kansas 154 53,936
Kentucky 774 19,207
Louisiana 1,172 21,036
Maine 375 574
Maryland 158 1,078
Massachusetts 1,525 1,763
Michigan 526 3,806
Minnesota 1,849 30,563
Mississippi 2,294 34,769
Missouri 3,161 29,893
Montana 2,432 351,264
Nebraska 51 4,854
Nevada 551 42,479
New Hampshire 114 622
New Jersey 1,013 2,685
New Mexico 696 44,104
New York 186 3,844
North Carolina 3,828 15,220
North Dakota 726 32,321
Ohio 69 548
Oklahoma 1,309 100,382
Oregon 2,588 685,809
Pennsylvania 831 4,473
Rhode Island 86 132
South Carolina 976 3,800
South Dakota 1,032 72,985
Tennessee 611 8,478
Texas 9,272 184,418
Utah 930 10,203
Vermont 102 346
Virginia 631 6,574
Washington 2,013 1,137,664
West Virginia 8 219
Wisconsin 993 2,970
Wyoming 512 35,652
United States (2) 68,151 10,125,149
(1) Delaware had no wildfires in 2015. (2) Includes Puerto Rico which had 947 fires that burned 4,477 acres. Source: National Interagency Fire Center.