California Wildfires:
2015 v 2020

Exploring how to gather data from primary sources and then organizing said data to create representational graphics. I focused on comparing California Wildfires in 2015 to 2020.

This project was all about gathering data and creating a narrative to go along with the data found. 

The topic I decided to find data for was California Wildfires since in 2020 they were all over the news and that is what caught my eye. From completing my research I found that 2015 was also a bad year for wildfires in California so I decided to do a comparison of the two.

I started by gathering data about each wildfire from both years including acres burned, duration of each fire, structural damages. I also thought it would be interesting to compare all that to the population in 2015 v 2020.

After gathering all the data needed to create these representational graphics, I started to create the maps used in the final article and picking out the color palette, typography, and layout of the article.