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The 2020 Creek Fire was a very large wildfire in central California's Sierra National Forest, in Fresno and Madera counties. One of the most significant fires of California's record-setting 2020 wildfire season, it began on September 4, 2020, and burned 379,895 acres (153,738 ha) over several months until it was declared 100% contained on December 24, 2020.
The Creek Fire expanded in the Big Creek drainage area, temporarily trapping hundreds of campers near the Mammoth Pool Reservoir. The North Complex explosively grew in size as the winds fanned it westward, threatening the city of Oroville, triggering mass evacuations, and causing 16 fatalities. [13]
Big Creek is a 19.3-mile-long (31.1 km) tributary of the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada, within the Sierra National Forest, central California. The creek flows in Fresno County. [1] The settlement of Big Creek is named for it, as was the 2020 Creek Fire, which started in the Big Creek drainage and became one of California's largest ...
The Smokehouse Creek Fire is currently the second-largest fire in Texas history. It surpassed the 1988 fire named the Big Country Fire, which scorched 366,000 acres. See Texas Panhandle wildfire ...
Winds expand Jennings Creek fire, but progress made. The rain helped firefighters gain some control over the Jennings Creek Wildfire along the New Jersey-New York border, which had engulfed 3,500 ...
The Cedar Creek Fire was a large wildfire in the U.S. state of Oregon that began on August 1, 2022, with a series of lightning strikes in the Willamette National Forest approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of Oakridge. [1] By September 8, the fire had reached over 73,000 acres (30,000 ha). [3]
Smokehouse Creek Fire — Hutchinson County, 1,075,000 acres*, 5% containment 687 Reamer Fire — Hutchinson County, 2,000 acres*, 10% containment Windy Deuce Fire — Moore County, 142,000 acres ...
Camp Creek Clackamas, Multnomah: 2,055: August 24: 2023: Caused by lightning. Burning in the Bull Run Watershed in the Mount Hood National Forest. [35] [36] [8] Tyee Ridge Complex Douglas: 7,945: August 24: 2023: Consists of the Cougar Creek Fire, Tyee Mountain Fire, Big Tom Fire, and Lighthouse fires. [37] [38] Chilcoot Douglas: 1,940: August ...