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?)
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