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The 2020 Creek Fire was a very large wildfire in central California's Sierra National Forest, in Fresno and Madera counties. One of the most significant fires of California's record-setting 2020 wildfire season, it began on September 4, 2020, and burned 379,895 acres (153,738 ha) over several months until it was declared 100% contained on December 24, 2020.
English: Fire progression map of the Creek Fire, as of October 26, 2020.The different stages of the wildfire's growth are represented by different colors. The Creek Fire became the fourth largest wildfire in the recorded history of California (now the fifth) and the largest non-complex wildfire in state history until the 2021 Dixie Fire.
The Creek Fire expanded in the Big Creek drainage area, temporarily trapping hundreds of campers near the Mammoth Pool Reservoir. The North Complex explosively grew in size as the winds fanned it westward, threatening the city of Oroville, triggering mass evacuations, and causing 16 fatalities. [13]
A vegetation fire retardant burns east of Blacks Creek Road south of Interstate 84, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Idaho has multiple online resources, including Fish and Game’s interactive fire map .
Having ignited in August 2020, the 402,274-acre (162,795 ha) fire ravaged multiple communities in northwestern Oregon, before it was fully contained on December 10, 2020. The fire started as three separate fires. The Beachie Creek, Lionshead, and P-515 fires were ignited by lightning on August 16, 2020. The first three fires gradually grew in ...
The news organization covered many natural disasters, including destructive floods, a 1983 earthquake that leveled Coalinga buildings and injured more than 200, and the 2020 Creek Fire in eastern ...
Grape Vine Creek Fire: 30,000 acres burned (20% contained) Windy Deuce Fire: 8,000 acres burned (20% contained) The Juliet Pass Fire was 90% contained on Tuesday afternoon after burning nearly ...
[1] [3] These lightning strikes initially started fires separately known as the Warnella Fire, near Davenport and the Waddell Fire, near Waddell Creek, as well as three fires on what would become the northern edge of the CZU Complex fire. Two days after the fires began, a change in wind conditions caused these three northern fires to rapidly ...