Total damage is increasing, and its not being caused by global warming.
Total Wildland Fires and Acres from 1990 to 2020
Year # of Fires # of Acres Burned
1990 66,481 4,621,621
1991 75,754 2,953,578
1992 87,394 2,069,929
1993 58,810 1,797,574
1994 79,107 4,073,579
1995 82,234 1,840,546
1996 96,363 6,065,998
1997 66,196 2,856,959
1998 81,043 1,329,704
1999 92,487 5,626,093
2000 92,250 7,393,493
2001 84,079 3,570,911
2002 73,457 7,184,712
2003 63,629 3,960,842
2004 65,461 *8,097,880
2005 66,753 8,689,389
2006 96,385 9,873,745
2007 85,705 9,328,045
2008 78,979 5,292,468
2009 78,792 5,921,786
2010 71,971 3,422,724
2011 74,126 8,711,367
2012 67,774 9,326,238
2013 47,579 4,319,546
2014 63,312 3,595,613
2015 68,151 10,125,149
2016 67,743 5,509,995
2017 71,499 10,026,086
2018 58,083 8,767,492
2019 50,477 4,664,364
2020 58,950 10,122,336
Back in 1957, there were Smokey the Bear service announcements on TV warning that there were so many wildfires in the US each year that if put together they would cover the entire state of Louisiana.
That is 33,522 million acres. We still got a long way to equal 1957.
Doubt the huge increase in fires has anything to do with Mother Nature.