The West’s 2020 wildfire season has been historic and unrelenting. In California alone, over 3.9 million acres have burned, an area larger than Connecticut. The Golden State has been torched by 8,100 blazes, killing 29 people, displacing tens of thousands and destroying 7,200 structures. Five of the six largest wildfires on record in California have occurred this year. Fires have also devoured hundreds of thousands of acres in the Pacific Northwest.