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Table 5 Count of structures destroyed by the 940 denominator fires of interest (excluding fire complexes) by maximum single-day fire spread rate (ha) and overall growth duration (weeks) from 2009 to 2020, with gray shading indicating the 32 analog fires. While structures destroyed by analog fires are identified by gray shading (n = 386), two fires within the gray shading were not CB yet destroyed two structures each, accounting for the discrepancy between the 390 structures destroyed within this table and the 386 destroyed by analog fires

From: Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative