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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 wildfires in the US state of California. California has dry, windy, and ...
Looking at nearly 2,000 wildfires in California, including those that burned across state boundaries, the 25 largest have all happened this century. This ranking was based on a fire’s total acreage.
The October northern California wildfires were a large group of forest fires that killed 44 people and destroyed 8,900 structures. [78] 2017: 281,893 acres (114,078 ha) Thomas Fire: California: Largest wildfire in modern California history at the time (1889 Santiago Canyon fire may have been larger).
The 2018 Camp Fire in the town of Paradise scorched more than 150,000 acres and was the deadliest wildfire in California's history. Ninety-five percent of the town burned in the fire. Ninety-five ...
The year 2020 was the largest wildfire year recorded in California history, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] From a historical perspective, the average annual acres burned prior to 1850 were probably significantly larger than years since reliable fire records began.
At least 25 people have been killed and more than 40,000 acres burned as the wildfires race through southern California for ... disaster in California history. ... largest in the nation with ...
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, on Thursday put the August Complex Fire in Mendocino National Forest atop its list of the largest wildfires in the state. Gov.
The fire reportedly started in Fremont Canyon, a canyon close to what today is Irvine Lake. [4] Until 2018, it was possibly the single largest wildfire in the recorded history of California, [1] [2] with at least 300,000 acres (1,200 km 2) of land burned. [3]