What is 2020 Western United States wildfire season?
[[File:Bobcat Fire, Los Angeles, San Gabriel Mountains.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A view of the wildfires in [[Los Angeles]]]] In 2020, the [[Western United States]] experienced a series of major [[wildfires]]. Intense August thunderstorms lit many wildfires across [[California]], [[Oregon]], and [[Washington]], followed in early September by additional ignitions across the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]]. Fanned by strong, gusty winds and fueled by hot, dry terrains, many of the fires exploded and coalesced into record-breaking, [[fire cloud]] producing,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/californias-creek-fire-creates-its-own-pyrocumulonimbus-cloud|title=California's Creek Fire Creates Its Own Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud|date=8 September 2020|access-date=9 September 2020|publisher=NASA}}</ref> [[Megafire (fire)|megafires]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Freedman |first1=Andrew |title=Western wildfires: An 'unprecedented' climate change fueled event, experts say |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/09/11/western-wildfires-climate-change/ |access-date=September 11, 2020 |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=September 11, 2020 |archive-date=September 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200911225454/https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/09/11/western-wildfires-climate-change/ |url-status=live }}</ref> burning more than {{convert|4.6|e6acre|e6ha|abbr=off}} of land. It has killed at least 35 people, with many more still missing.<ref>{{Cite news|date=September 10, 2020|title=Historic Wildfires Rage in Western States|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/article/wildfires-photos-california-oregon-washington-state.html|url-status=live|access-date=September 14, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=September 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912005412/https://www.nytimes.com/article/wildfires-photos-california-oregon-washington-state.html}}</ref> [[Climate change]] and poor [[forest management]] practices led to the