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The fire, which sparked around 3:50 p.m., ignited several yards downstream near Tribute Road was burning in dry grass and a marsh area. Smoke from the fire was pronounced on the freeway’s ...
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The California Department of Water Resources’ Flood Preparedness Week has begun after a weekend of rain accumulating over two inches in part of the Sacramento region.. From Oct. 21 to Oct. 28 ...
The 2021 Dixie Fire was an enormous wildfire in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta, and Tehama counties in Northern California. [4] Named after a nearby Dixie Road, [5] the fire began in the Feather River Canyon near Cresta Dam in Butte County on July 13, 2021, and burned 963,309 acres (389,837 ha) before it was declared 100 percent contained on October 25, 2021. [6]
By the end of 2024, a total of 8,024 wildfires burned a cumulative 1,050,012 acres (424,925 ha) throughout the U.S. state of California.The total number of wildfires was slightly higher than the five-year average, while the total number of acres burned was lower. [3]
The River Fire was a wildfire that broke out from a lightning storm early on August 16, 2020 in Monterey County, California, south of Salinas, near River Road and Mount Toro. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Within its first day, it spread to 2,000 acres and was 10% contained; mandatory evacuations were ordered, while air and ground crews worked the fire.
A strong Pacific storm with an atmospheric river will continue to pummel California with a threat of flooding rain as feet of snow piles up in the Sierra Nevada through early Friday morning. Of ...
Northern California is primed to get three atmospheric river storms, according to Courtney Carpenter, a meteorologist with the weather service's Sacramento office. Atmospheric river storms are ...