The decade of the 2000’s resulted in the largest amount of total acres burnt in the United States. Between the time period of January 2000 - December 2009 a total 69,313,271 acres burnt over the decade. The amount of land that was burnt in this decade roughly equates to the total area of the State of Nevada.
The decade of the 2010’s closely followed the 2000’s in the amount of total acres burnt. In the 2010s a total of 68,468,574 acres burned in the United States.