The 1988 Yellowstone fire was not caused by special conditions; it merged with other small fires to create megafires covering 1.4 million acres (70x larger than previous record, 50x larger than all fires in previous 15 years combined)—demonstrating that catastrophic events can emerge from typical conditions in critical systems.
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“it merged with other small fires to create an enormous complex of megafires that blazed across 1.4 million acres of land. That's 70 times bigger than the previous record, and 50 times the area of all the fires over the previous 15 years combined”
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