[sammyg2]

Interesting. Based soly on that information, The fires in California added up to about 8.5% of total acres burned and that only listed the top 6 states.
If you factored in fires from all states and not just the top 6, I'm sure that percentage would fall much lower. Possibly as low as 5%.

The interesting part is that California has 12% of the population of the US.
So if you figure it out per capita, California has less area burned per citizen than many other states and therefore less cost per capita to fight those fires.