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The Summer 2008 wildfires burned a total of 1,162,197 acres (4,703.24 km 2) between May 2008 and September 2008, comprising the vast majority of burned land by wildfires in California in 2008. [27] [16] [28] In total, the Summer 2008 wildfires burned a total of 1,161,197 acres (469,920 ha), which accounts for 84% of the total area burned during ...
The 2008 Iron Alps Complex Fire, also called the Iron/Alps Complex Fire, was a large wildfire complex in Trinity County, California, United States. The complex comprised 48 fires, 36 of which were in the Iron Complex, and 12 in the Alps Complex, [ 4 ] : 114 all of which were ignited by lightning on June 21.
In 2012, 7,950 wildfires burned a total of 869,599 acres (3,519.14 km 2) in the US state of California; [1]: 62 these included the massive Rush Fire, which was the tenth-largest wildfire recorded in California in modern times, and the Ponderosa Fire, which destroyed 133 structures.
Climate change in California has lengthened the fire season and made it more extreme from the middle of the 20th century. [4] [5]Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California have grown more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by ...
The Basin Complex Fire was a massive wildfire near Big Sur that ignited on June 21, 2008, and was the result of a lightning strike. It eventually grew to 162,818 acres (658.90 km 2 ), becoming the second-largest wildfire of the 2008 California wildfire season and burning most of the Ventana Wilderness .
The Freeway Complex Fire was a 2008 wildfire in the Santa Ana Canyon area of Orange County, California. [1] The fire started as two separate fires on November 15, 2008. The Freeway Fire started first shortly after 9 am with the Landfill Fire igniting approximately 2 hours later. These two separate fires merged a day later and ultimately ...
The Telegraph Fire was a destructive wildfire in Mariposa County, Central California, in the summer of 2008.After it was unintentionally ignited by a target shooter on July 25, the fire burned 34,091 acres (13,796 hectares) in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada west of Yosemite National Park before it was declared fully contained on August 6.
The Sesnon Fire (also known as the Porter Ranch Fire) was a wildfire that broke out near the oil fields of Oat Mountain, north of Porter Ranch, California, on Monday October 13, 2008. [2] The cause of this fire was a power line falling onto dry brush near a drainage area. [3] A state of emergency was declared by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ...