The United States had far more wildfires, but far fewer acres burned, than normal in 2025, according to a newly released report.

The National Interagency Fire Center, the home of U.S. wildland fire planning and suppression efforts, released its annual national wildfire report on Friday, which shows just how abnormal 2025 was.

The reported number of wildfires nationwide was noticeably higher than the five and 10-year averages, according to the report. Nearly 77,850 wildfires burned throughout the nation in 2025, compared with the 5-year average of 61,680 and the 10-year average of 62,435.

Conversely, the high number of wildfires burned far under the normal amount of acres nationwide. Wildfires in 2025 burned 5,131,474 acres, below the 5-year average of 7.3 million burned acres and the 10-year average of 7.6 million burned acres.

Southern states, from Virginia to Texas, had just under half of the nation’s total wildfires at 37,088, by far the highest number of reported wildfires compared with any other region in the nation, according to the report. The largest wildfire of 2025 was Dragon Bravo in Arizona, burning 145,504 acres. The southern region also nearly had the nation’s most burned acres at 967,000, second only to the Alaska region with 1,006,000 burned acres, and had over half of the nation’s reported human-caused wildfires at 36,040.

Eastern states, from Maine to Missouri and Minnesota, had by far the highest increases in both reported wildfires and burned acres compared with every other region’s 10-year average. The region’s burned acre total of 241,000 acres was 159% higher than its 10-year average of burned acres, while its reported wildfire total of 15,367 was 50% higher than its 10-year average of reported wildfires.

Center officials processed an above-average number of requests for resources filed nationwide at over 660,000 requests, including critical supply orders. Requests for crew, overhead, and helicopter mobilizations were well above previous averages, while requests for air tankers, engines, and critical incident management team mobilizations fell below averages.

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