洛杉磯火災的相關錯誤訊息的傳播，尤其突顯了華文媒體的缺陷：多元觀點的貧乏，令聳動的文章和社交媒體貼文得以歪曲有關火災及其後果的種種事實。這些片面報道不但沒有提供平衡的視角，反而加劇了恐慌，助長虛假敘事並加深政治分歧。

“People were confused. It was almost as if both the fire and misinformation were too big to contain.”

Inspired by a similar year-in-review piece from FiveThirtyEight, here are some of the most interesting charts we made in the last 12 months.

I knew the Dixie Fire was unprecedented. I knew that climate change had a role in its massive size. I also knew that not all of it was bad.

Nearly twenty years after I left town, wildfires are posing a whole new threat to my homeland.

The fire was within the mountains, within the earth. It was never meant to leave. But it did.

“The bottom line is, for Montana this year, those [1,863] that were human-caused, very realistically might not have happened at all."