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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.
The Park Fire surpassed the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, which was caused by lightning and arson in August 2020, and burned 363,220 acres in Napa, Solano, Sonoma, Yolo, Lake and Colusa.
The fire has burned more than 337,000 acres in Tehama County and nearly 53,000 acres in Butte County. The wildfire has also affected areas in Plumas and Shasta counties.
Current fires in California have burned 687,191 acres so far, Cal Fire said. Nationwide 102 large active wildfires, the vast majority in the West , are blamed for charring more than 2 million ...
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 ...
Deer Creek and its tributaries drain 229 square miles (590 km 2). [7] The creek flows roughly southwest for most of its 60-mile (97 km) length. [3] Its headwaters are in Lassen National Forest at an elevation of 7,320 feet (2,230 m) on Butt Mountain in the southern Cascade Range, several miles (9 km) west of Lake Almanor. [3]
Despite the efforts of ground crews and three night-flying helicopters, the wind-driven fire continued to burn largely north—parallel to California State Route 99—and into Tehama County. [25] At 3:00 a.m. Cal Fire announced that the fire had so far burned 45,549 acres (18,433 ha); [26] this made it the largest wildfire of the year in ...
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