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List of California wildfires. Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of California wildfires.
Some of the wildfires as seen from space during the height of the summer outbreak on July 9, 2008. The 2008 California wildfire season was one of the most devastating in the state of the 21st century. While 6,255 fires occurred, [1] about two-thirds as many as in 2007, the total area burned— 1,593,690 acres (6,449.4 square kilometres) [2 ...
The August Complexwas a massive wildfirethat burned in the Coast Rangeof Northern California, in Glenn, Lake, Mendocino, Tehama, Trinity, and Shasta Counties. The complex originated as 38 separate fires started by lightning strikes on August 16–17, 2020. Four of the largest fires, the Doe, Tatham, Glade, and Hull fires, had burned together by ...
An enormous wildfire has grown by 8 sq miles an hour (20 sq km) as it spreads across parts of northern California. The Park fire, which started on Wednesday in a suspected arson attack, has burned ...
California’s Park Fire now among state’s top 13 largest ever as it consumes 239,000 acres. Dalia Faheid, CNN. July 28, 2024 at 6:29 AM. Hot and dry weather is fueling wildfire activity in the ...
The California Highway Patrol said that a runaway big rig ran off the roadway around 12:15 p.m., spilling “several thousand” pieces of metal in the northbound lanes just south of Grapevine Road.
The 2020 California wildfire season, part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season, was a record-setting year for wildfires in California. Over the course of the year, 8,648 fires burned 4,304,379 acres (1,741,920 ha), [ 1 ][ 2 ] more than four percent of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land, making 2020 the largest wildfire ...
Two people were killed and nine others were injured Saturday in a massive pileup north of Los Angeles that involved as many as 40 vehicles in foggy conditions on Interstate 5, authorities said.