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The 2021 KNP Complex Fire was a large wildfire in Sequoia National Park and the Sequoia National Forest in Central California's Tulare County.After lightning ignited the Paradise and Colony fires in the southern Sierra Nevada on September 9, the twin blazes combined into the Complex and burned a total of 88,307 acres (35,737 hectares).
A 2021 report led by National Park Service scientists concluded that over 7,500–10,600 mature trees, 10–14 percent of the species' population, had likely been lost in the fire. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Near Sequoia Crest , one-third of the Alder Creek Grove of Giant Sequoia is reported as severely damaged. [ 18 ]
Sequoia National Park is a national park of the United States in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects 404,064 acres (631 sq mi; 163,519 ha; 1,635 km 2 ) [ 2 ] of forested mountainous terrain.
On August 20 the southern portions of the fire had began to push into the Surprise Grove area, [9] [10] and on August 22 an evacuation warning was issued for areas directly west of the Sequoia National Park. [11] [12] The fire reached 2,683 acres (1,086 ha) in size the following day, and crews conducted aerial firefighting operations. [12]
The Washington tree, located in the Giant Forest Grove in Sequoia National Park provides a good example of the aforementioned phenomenon. This tree was the second-largest tree in the world (only the General Sherman tree was larger) until September 2003, when the tree lost a portion of its crown as a result of a fire caused by a lightning strike.
General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located at an elevation of 2,109 m (6,919 ft) above sea level in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth. [1]
The 2021 Windy Fire was a large wildfire in the Sequoia National Forest in Central California's Tulare County.Ignited by a lightning strike in the southern Sierra Nevada on September 9, the fire burned 97,528 acres (39,468 ha) over the course of a month, threatening communities like Ponderosa and Johnsondale.
The Lion Fire was the 3rd largest fire of the 2011 California wildfire season. [3] The fire, which was the result of a lightning strike, burned 20,674 acres (84 km 2) of land in the Sequoia National Forest. As the fire grew it forced the evacuations of many popular campgrounds in Sequoia National Park. [4]