And while some states may be large by land ... whose borders are nearly three times the size. The data visualization company created the population-based map to show how “rural areas with ...

Things are always subject to change, but even if the map never grew from its current size, it’s still impressively large.

That’s a size larger than all but a handful of U.S. cities. To get a sense of the scale of the wildfires, use the map below to compare each blaze to any of the 1,000 most-populous cities or ...