While the devastating fires in Los Angeles continue to rage and six million people are still living in „particularly dangerous situations“ on Wednesday, a quick look at the past shows how frequent catastrophic wildfires have become in recent years. Over the last five years, large wildfires have destroyed forests, cities and infrastructure almost every year, killing people and animals. In some years, these events have devastated areas around the globe several times the size of Germany. The chart shows the damage from the various disasters, some of which lasted several months of the „fire season“ in Australia and South America.