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1821 – Paramaribo, Suriname, fire destroyed over 400 houses. 1821 – Great Fire of Fayetteville destroyed 500 buildings in the city. 1825 – The 1825 Miramichi Fire destroyed the city of Miramichi, New Brunswick. 1827 – Great Fire of Turku, Finland. 1829 – Fire destroyed hundreds of buildings in Augusta, Georgia.
From top to bottom, and left to right; September 10 satellite image of the wildfires burning in California and Oregon; The Aurora Fire on June 26, 2020; The Bobcat Fire burning in the San Gabriel mountains near Monrovia; Smoke from the North Complex over the Bay Bridge at noon on September 9; An orange sky over Eureka on Sept 9; The CZU Lightning Complex fires along Butano Ridge on August 18 ...
The August 2020 lightning fires included three enormous wildfires: the SCU Lightning Complex, the August Complex, and the LNU Lightning Complex. On September 10, 2020, the August Complex set a record for the single-largest wildfire in the modern history of California, reaching a total area burned of 471,185 acres (1,907 km 2 ).
The McKinney Fire is spreading quickly in California, burning about 40 acres on Friday when it started in the Klamath National Forest and now scorching more than 55,000 acres, according to the ...
The Camp fire, based on the latest USGS data available early Monday morning. Infographic by Sara Chodosh. This and the two blazes outside of Los Angeles are being fueled by what is now an all-too ...
List of California wildfires. Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of California wildfires.
The 2024 California wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of California. As of July 2, 2024, a total of 2,872 wildfires have burned a cumulative 133,976 acres (54,218 ha). Year-to-date, the number of wildfires is below the five-year average; the number of acres burned is above it. [3]
The 2022 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires throughout the U.S. state of California. By the end of the year, a total of 7,667 fires had been recorded, totaling approximately 363,939 acres (147,281 hectares) across the state. Wildfires killed nine people in California in 2022, destroyed 772 structures, and damaged another 104.