34 times larger than an average year, France really IS suffering from fires this year. Don't be fooled by the "Europe average" - Northern Europe & Russia (which was lumped into the graph circulating on other social media) haven't had a heat dome.
Zeke HausfatherFires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year: