Editing Wildfire (section)

=== Costs of wildfire suppression ===
The suppression of wild fires takes up a large amount of a country's [[gross domestic product]] which directly affects the country's economy.<ref name="ellison">{{cite journal|last=Ellison|first=A|author2=Evers, C.|author3=Moseley, C.|author4=Nielsen-Pincus, M.|year=2012|title=Forest service spending on large wildfires in the West|url=http://ewp.uoregon.edu/sites/ewp.uoregon.edu/files/WP_41.pdf|journal=Ecosystem Workforce Program|volume=41|pages=1–16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123131143/http://ewp.uoregon.edu/sites/ewp.uoregon.edu/files/WP_41.pdf |archive-date=23 November 2020 }}</ref> While costs vary wildly from year to year, depending on the severity of each fire season, in the United States, local, state, federal and tribal agencies collectively spend tens of billions of dollars annually to suppress wildfires. In the United States, it was reported that approximately $6 billion was spent between 2004–2008 to suppress wildfires in the country.<ref name="ellison" /> In California, the [[United States Forest Service|U.S. Forest Service]] spends about $200 million per year to suppress 98% of wildfires and up to $1 billion to suppress the other 2% of fires that escape initial attack and become large.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Region 5 – Land & Resource Management|url=http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/landmanagement/?cid=stelprdb5412095|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823005834/http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/landmanagement/?cid=stelprdb5412095|archive-date=23 August 2016|access-date=22 August 2016|website=US Forest Service }}</ref>