CG lightning can occur with both positive and negative polarity. The polarity is that of the charge in the region that originated the lightning leaders. An average bolt of negative lightning carries an electric current of 30,000 amperes (30 kA), and transfers 15 coulombs of electric charge and 500 megajoules of energy.
Statewide, 19 wildfires greater than 1,000 acres in area are currently raging, according to the NIFC. The active fires have ravaged more than 630,000 acres, destroying approximately 200 homes and threatening another 12,000, according to Washington state officials.
Right now, firefighters in Alaska, Washington, and Canada are fighting huge wildfires raging across the continent. So far, over 11 million acres have burned in Canada and Alaska, and those numbers are still going up. As Chris Mooney notes at the Washington Post that's three times larger than Connecticut.