[Grampa Dave]

As usual you are right on target. When I saw that refigured acres to drop the total burned by 288 acres, (I didn't even bother to calculate the 0.06% change that you did), I had the same questions that you did.

There has too be some reason for trying to keep this fire below 500,000 acres, so they are recalculating or skewering the data.


I guess that 499,780 acres burnt is Politically and probably diversity correct. If it gets over 500,000 acres, some Americans might pay attention to it for a minute or two.

[Carry_Okie]

When you talk about differences that small, you are in the realm of subjectivity regarding what burned and what didn't. They are reading the thickness of lines.