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How many to list?

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According to this, there are 16 wildfires currently burning in Colorado. How many should we list? Which are significant enough to record? — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 03:34, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed thresholds for inclusion:

  1. Fire exceeds 1,000 acres (4.0 km2)
  2. Fire causes fatalities or numerous injuries
  3. Fire causes destruction of a large number of structures.
  4. Fire results in large and widespread evacuations.
  5. Fire costs >$500,000 in fire fighting costs.

Tedweverka (talk) 23:06, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

inciweb.nwcg.gov as a source

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Might need to use an internet archived page of inciweb references, the site typically keeps data for 1-2 years tops. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.124.92.254 (talk) 22:52, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fires partly in Colorado

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The Mullen fire has about 20,000 acres burned in Colorado, and 170,000 total. If we were to consider just the Colorado acreage, it belongs on a list of major Colorado wildfires. An asterisk in the table entry for size, prevents it from showing up when sorting fires by size.Tedweverka (talk) 14:48, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There are three additional fires which crossed state lines: Trinidad Complex fire, Beaver Creek fire, and Stateline fire (A consistent representation should be helpful).

Proposal: List all fires by entire acreage, since that is the first descriptor a reader is looking for and the fraction in one state is not indicative of fire size. In the intro, put a note that Colorado Wildfires means fires in or partly in Colorado. We can color code the acreage of firss partly in Colorado , to mark them differently with a note that these are partly in Colorado.Tedweverka (talk) 21:27, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]