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The 2024 Western Cape wildfires are a series of forest fires in the City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.They led to the loss of 52,501 hectares of land, of which 15,587 hectares were on the CapeNature estate. 129 VIIRS fire alerts were reported between September 11, 2023, and September 16, 2024 (high confidence alerts), with 52 VIIRS fire alerts reported in 2024.
The 2021 Table Mountain fire (also known as the Rhodes Memorial fire [2] or Cape Town fire [3] [4]) is a major fire that started on 18 April 2021 [5] in and around Table Mountain National Park and the neighbourhoods of Newlands, [2] Rosebank, Mowbray and Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa.
The fire destroyed roughly one-third of Slave Lake and cost $1.8 billion. 2011: 4,011,709 acres (1,623,481 ha) 2011 Texas wildfires: Texas: Wildfires began in November 2010 and continued to rage due to a severe drought that lasted 271 months. 47.3% of all acreage burned in the United States in 2011 was burned in Texas.
Climate change is making the Western United States drier, which can fuel wildfires like those affecting Los Angeles. With higher temperatures come parched landscapes full of vegetation that can ...
The 2015 Cape wildfires were a series of wildfires that burned across the Western Cape from February to April 2015. Major fires burned across the Cape Peninsula starting on 1 March in Muizenberg and burning until 9 March, when firefighters extinguished it. [7] [8] The fire resulted in 1 death, 56 injuries, over 6,900 hectares (17,000 acres) of ...
The intense spring wildfires in Alberta are reminiscent of the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire, which is considered one of Canada’s costliest natural disasters. “This is a very unusual pattern.
The Palisades Fire, the Eaton Fire and others have burned more than 40,000 acres across Los Angeles since Jan. 7 and destroyed thousands of buildings, including at least a dozen K-12 schools, such ...
2015 Western Cape fire season; 2024 Western Cape wildfires; P. 2022 Parliament of South Africa fire; T. 2000 Table Mountain fire; 2009 Table Mountain fire;