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The North Complex Fire was a massive wildfire complex that burned in the Plumas National Forest in Northern California in the counties of Plumas and Butte. [2] Twenty-one fires were started by lightning on August 17, 2020; by September 5, all the individual fires had been put out with the exception of the Claremont and Bear Fires, which merged on that date, and the Sheep Fire, which was then ...
Pages in category "Wildfires in Plumas County, California" ... Walker Fire (2019) This page was last edited on 1 September 2015, at 16:24 (UTC). ...
Lightning sparked, includes the Claremont Fire and the Bear Fire; 2,342 structures destroyed; 113 structures damaged; 16 fatalities; [89] 13 injuries; It is the sixth-largest fire in California history and scorched more than 300,000 acres of land. [90] [91] Jones Nevada: 705: August 17: August 28
The Plumas County Sheriff’s Office just after 4:30 p.m. called for residents in zones PLU-074, PLU-093, PLU-095, PLU-097, PLU-098, PLU-111 and POR-007 to evacuate, according to the county’s ...
The Dixie fire reached 428 square miles on Wednesday, August 4, as new evacuation orders were issued in Plumas County, California, according to fire officials.The fire was 35 percent contained ...
The Dixie Fire burning in Plumas County, California, grew to 223 square miles and was at 18 percent containment as firefighting efforts continued, footage shared on Friday, July 23, shows.New ...
Plumas County, Butte County, Yuba County, California: 318,935: August 17: December 4: Lightning strikes, includes the Claremont Fire and the Bear Fire; 2,357 structures destroyed, 114 structures damaged; 15 fatalities; 2 injuries; It is the sixth-largest fire complex in California history. [148] [149] Salt Calaveras County, California: 1,789 ...
The August 2020 California lightning wildfires (also referred to as the August lightning siege or August wildfire siege) were a series of 650 wildfires that ignited across Northern California in mid-August 2020, due to a siege of dry lightning from rare, massive summer thunderstorms, which were caused by an unusual combination of very hot, dry air at the surface, dry fuels, and advection of ...