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September 11, 2024 at 4:36 PM. A resident stops to watch the Airport Fire burn near his home in the Santa Ana Mountains. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times) As four fires grew in Southern California ...
The Park Fire, which began Wednesday in the Chico area, has forced thousands of people to evacuate in Butte County, where the state’s deadliest wildfire, the Camp Fire, killed more than 85 ...
The Park fire, California's biggest and most destructive of 2024, continues to rage in Northern California, having already burned 414,000 acres across four counties and destroyed hundreds of ...
The 2022 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires throughout the U.S. state of California. By the end of the year, a total of 7,667 fires had been recorded, totaling approximately 363,939 acres (147,281 hectares) across the state. Wildfires killed nine people in California in 2022, destroyed 772 structures, and damaged another 104.
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 California wildfires. California has dry, windy, and often hot weather ...
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 ...
The blaze isn't the only Western wildfire of concern. Cal Fire is battling more than 20 active fires in the state, while crews in Canada are combating an 89,000-acre blaze in the Alberta province ...
The 2024 California wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of California. As of September 26, 2024 [update], a total of 6,401 wildfires have burned a cumulative 995,977 acres (403,058 ha). Year-to-date, the number of wildfires and the number of acres burned are higher than the five ...