The ten states are Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Over nineteen thousand firefighters are busy battling the blazes.
Focus is currently centering on Montana where twenty-one of those fires are located and the governor has declared a state of emergency.
Dozens more smaller fires are burning in several other states.
So far this year more than thirty-two thousand fires have burnt fifty-three hundred square miles.
This has caused budgetary strains on the US Forest Service and other firefighting agencies.
The Forest Service has already spent nine hundred and sixty-seven million dollars fighting fires.
They have been forced to start moving money meant for other areas towards the firefighting funds.
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