Wildfires in 2006 have now burned a record 8,693,994 acres as of Wednesday morning, September 13, with records kept all the way back to 1960. That acreage is roughly equal to the land areas of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island combined!

On September 6, I wrote a blog about the wildfires up to that time and some of the factors involved. Since then, Nevada has taken over first place from Texas in number of acres burned.