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California land area totals 99,813,760 or roughly 100 million acres, so since 2000, the area that burned annually has ranged between 90,000 acres, or 0.09%, and 1,590,000 acres, or 1.59% of the total land of California. [2] During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land.
1865 – Richmond, Virginia, burned by retreating Confederates. 1866 – Great Portland Fire of 1866, Maine, destroyed the commercial district and left 10,000 homeless. 1866 – Great Fire of Quebec City, Quebec, razed an entire faubourg and left 20,000 homeless. 1868 – Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria.
The 2024 California wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of California. As of September 30, 2024, a total of 6,500 wildfires have burned a cumulative 1,000,181 acres (404,759 ha). Year-to-date, the number of wildfires and the number of acres burned are higher than the five-year ...
September 8, 2024 at 11:53 AM. More than 35,000 structures were being threatened Sunday by an out-of-control wildfire in Southern California that has prompted evacuation orders and an emergency ...
September 12, 2024 at 1:51 PM. California’s Line Fire is burning so intensely that it created its own weather. Dramatic pyrocumulus, or “fire clouds,” exploded over the fire Monday at the ...
September 9, 2024 at 8:47 AM. The Line Fire in Southern California has set over 20,500 acres ablaze and is 0% contained. The wildfire was discovered Thursday, according to InciWeb 's data. It's ...
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.
Caldor Fire. The Caldor Fire was a large wildfire that burned 221,835 acres (89,773 hectares) in the Eldorado National Forest and other areas of the Sierra Nevada in El Dorado, Amador, and Alpine County, California, in the United States during the 2021 California wildfire season. [2] The fire was first reported on Saturday, August 14, 2021, and ...