Template:Did you know nominations/2017 Montana wildfires

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:34, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

2017 Montana wildfires edit

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The Alice Creek Fire

... that the 2017 Montana wildfires have scorched over 438,000 acres (177,000 ha)? "Montana Battles Wildfires Amid a Severe Drought," New York Times, September 7, 2017
- ALT1:... that the Rice Ridge Fire, one of the 2017 Montana wildfires, was declared the nation's top wildfire priority on September 3? "Rice Ridge Fire now top priority fire in nation" NBC Montana, September 4, 2017

Reviewed: Lorenzo Gordinho

Created by Montanabw (talk) and Bri (talk). Nominated by Montanabw (talk) at 20:39, 12 September 2017 (UTC).

The first hook might need clarification as I think the 438,000 acre number pertains to large fires only. Another source in the article says 1 million ac, presumably for all recorded fires. Also it should probably be displayed in metric if it makes the main page. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:53, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Hence "over". @Bri:, I'm reluctant to go too far into SYNTH territory as 438K is the number stated in the NYT source -- "large" is undefined there and I can't figure out where they got the 21 fires number because the data on inciweb is constantly changing and I can't figure out what math they used (also, their data may have been old by the time they published). I'm up for using one million, but we need a different source for that. Fixed the conversion issue. Montanabw^(talk) 02:02, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

@Montanabw and Bri: Suggest:

ALT1: ... that as of September 12, 48 wildfires in Montana were actively burning? --Usernameunique (talk) 19:32, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

New and long enough, within policy, Earwig detects no copyvios, QPQ done. Hooks all check out, though I've made a few tweaks. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 22:02, 14 September 2017 (UTC)