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. 2021 Aug 26;110(2):961–998. doi: 10.1007/s11069-021-04975-4

Table 5.

Top 25 Terms in wildfires search, by geography

All US Wildfire states Non-wildfire states
n 8,535,219 n 3,413,636 n 5,121,629
homes 1,056,816 California wildfires 326,385 homes 778,768
California wildfires 961,057 home 251,439 burn 664,672
burns 898,853 help 249,151 California wildfires 634,691
Firefighters 796,758 acres 238,488 state 577,398
area 734,567 firefighters 229,926 Firefighters 566,839
helped 732,635 burned 222,823 area 545,705
spread 638,229 areas 190,263 helped 483,343
acres 618,474 smoke 176,233 spread 478,177
smoke 490,436 update 163,058 destroyed 390,856
Updated 487,027 spread 160,063 acres 379,987
destroying 470,135 evacuate 124,061 official 366,568
evacuated 412,548 lost 121,103 AP 356,789
report 409,480 fighting 105,429 blaze 346,942
blazes 395,562 affected 101,167 report 329,532
killed 390,509 working 97,047 killed 324,452
working 385,039 battling 94,052 Updated 323,639
AP 385,021 contained 92,557 smoke 314,206
started 384,096 Southern California 81,139 started 305,511
battling 378,468 safe 77,949 work 283,654
fighting 367,835 climate change 77,768 evacuate 279,552
flames 335,895 using 72,178 battle 275,782
contained 330,736 @realDonaldTrump 64,181 flames 272,980
Southern California 313,679 flames 62,922 residents 271,109
cause 306,700 #california 56,752 fighting 262,411
climate change 268,529 fleeing 50,431 contained 238,180