That's amazing. I just did a Mapquest check for the mileage from Slow Lo to Tucson and it said it was 190.96 miles. I recall reading about the big Tillamook Burn forest fire in Oregon in 1933 which had ash falling 500 miles out to sea. It was comprised of 4 fires, the first in 1933, and then 6 years apart in what was called "The 6 years jinx" -- 1939, 1945 and 1951. Here are the stats:
Tillamook Burn Summary
| Totals: All Four Fires | Board Feet | Acres |
| Perimeter area | 360,882 | |
| Unburned area within perimeter | 5,946 | |
| Burned area | 354,936 | |
| Timber killed *Enough for over one million five-room homes |
13,102,917,000 |
Source: Oregon Department of Forestry. Tillamook Burn to Tillamook State Forest.
Does anyone know how that compares in size with what is happening in the West now?