U.S. forests are inventoried on five- to seven-year cycles. Accordingly, some states' data used to compile this ranking comes from between one and seven years prior to the stated survey year.
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U.S. states forested share of land 2022, by leading state
As of 2022, Maine was the U.S. state that had the largest share of its land area covered in forest, amounting to over ** percent of its land being forested. Of its 19.7 million acres of land, about 17.6 million acres of Maine's land was forested as of 2022. New Hampshire had the second leading share of its overall land forested at that time, exceeding ** percent of its land area covered in forest.Â
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