It's disingenuous to compare a single year vs an average like this, without going into what the distribution looks like.
Maybe years are either very calm or have lots of fires? That would result in some years being much worse than the average.
Maybe years are either very calm or have lots of fires? That would result in some years being much worse than the average.
There were 13832 forest fires in Portugal alone in 2008. The avg in this chart seems far less than that...
Maybe I'm reading this wrong?
[0] https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/media/cms_page_media/40/fores...