Recent East Coast hurricanes have gotten more media coverage than California wildfires

By Rani Molla and Shirin Ghaffary

In the past few weeks, a series of historically destructive wildfires have ravaged California — burning entire towns to the ground, leaving 84 dead, nearly a thousand missing and more than 10,000 homes destroyed — and the blazes are still ongoing.

But the issue has received far less media coverage than hurricanes this year, according to data from Parse.ly, a company that measures article views for more than 3,000 primarily U.S.-based publication websites, including the Wall Street Journal, NBC and Time.

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