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The Park Fire was an extremely large wildfire in Northern California's Butte and Tehama counties. It ignited on July 24, 2024 in an alleged act of arson in the city of Chico's Bidwell Park in Butte County.
A perfect storm of hot, dry winds, untouched brush and remote topography has fueled explosive growth of the Park fire north of Chico, now over 350,000 acres.
Cal Fire listed the fire at 71,489 acres Thursday afternoon, with 3% containment. Residents in northeast Chico, Forest Ranch and some smaller mountain areas, including the hamlet of Cohasset, have ...
Cal Fire in a Friday evening update reported the Park Fire at 239,152 (374 square miles), nearly twice the size of Lake Tahoe (192 square miles). ... Lopez moved to Cohasset from Chico six years ...
Sherry Alpers checks on her dogs at a center for Park Fire evacuees in Chico, California, on Friday. - Noah Berger/AP • 102 large wildfires burning nationwide: Triple-digit heat and dry ...
The sun rises as seen through smoke from the Park Fire as seen from Cohasset Road east of Chico on Thursday, July 25, 2024. (Hector Amezcua/hamezcua@sacbee.com)
The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California's Butte County was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The fire began on the morning of Thursday, November 8, 2018, when part of a poorly maintained Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) transmission line in the Feather River Canyon failed during strong katabatic winds.
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]