Wildfires and Businesses

The visualization shown below are indicating the number of wildfires and the number of businesses closed for the same state over a period of 4 different years. In states which have a higher number of wildfires tend to have higher number of businesses closed as compared to the states where the number of wildfires are less. But it cannot be clearly distinguished that the wildfires can be a reason of business closures as some regions having higher number of wildfires have lesser number of businesses closed.
So, it cannot be clearly justified from the findings of the gathered data that wildfires have a direct connection to business closures. And considering the year range is quite small as only data of three years can be compared. Also, it is noteworthy to say that these numbers are in the years followed by a great recession which was faced by the whole world.


Outer circle represents business closures.

Inner circle represents number of wildfires.

GUIDE:
1. Hover over the wildire bars to see the number of wildfires.
2. Hover over the business closure bars to see the number of businesses closed.