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The Fairview fire east of Hemet ignited around 3 p.m. and quickly exploded to more than 2,000 acres, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. It was 5% contained as of 10 p.m. Monday ...
By the end of 2024, a total of 8,024 wildfires burned a cumulative 1,050,012 acres (424,925 ha) throughout the U.S. state of California. The total number of wildfires was slightly higher than the five-year average, while the total number of acres burned was lower. [3]
The Fairview fire, which has killed two people, has burned nearly 20,000 acres and remained 5% contained late Wednesday night. Deadly wildfire near Hemet doubles in size, closes in on 20,000 acres ...
Hemet is a city in the San Jacinto Valley in Riverside County, California.It covers a total area of 29.3 square miles (76 km 2), about half of the valley, which it shares with the neighboring city of San Jacinto.
As of 7:15 p.m. PT, the fire had burned 566 acres and was at 0% containment, according to Cal Fire. The department said the blaze had a "dangerous rate'' of spread in an earlier update.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, colloquially known as Cal Fire, [3] is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California. It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state ...
A map of evacuation orders and warnings for the Border 2 Fire in California, as of January 24, 2025. Areas in red are under evacuation orders and areas in yellow are under evacuation warnings ...
The year 2020 was the largest wildfire year recorded in California history, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] From a historical perspective, the average annual acres burned prior to 1850 were probably significantly larger than years since reliable fire records began.