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[1] The wildfire season in California experienced an unusually early start amid an ongoing drought and historically low rainfall and reservoir levels. [2] In January 2021 alone, 297 fires burned 1,171 acres (4.74 km 2) on nonfederal land according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which is almost triple the number of ...
Pre-1800, when the area was much more forested and the ecology much more resilient, 4.4-11.9 million acres (1.8-4.8 million hectares) of forest and shrubland burned annually. [1] 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 ...
Flames and plumes of smoke from the Tiger Fire can be seen from Spring Valley, Arizona overnight on July 6, 2021 Haze from the West Coast fires in Littleton, Massachusetts on July 26, 2021. 2021 British Columbia wildfires, Canada; 2021 Nuevo León wildfires, Mexico; 2021 Arizona wildfires; 2021 California wildfires; 2021 Colorado wildfires
It is one of three fires blazing in the area. To the east, the Line Fire is just 21% contained, while the Airport Fire, in the Santa Ana Mountains on the other side of San Bernardino, is 8% ...
The Tamarack Fire was a wildfire that burned 68,637 acres (27,776 ha), primarily in the Mokelumne Wilderness in Alpine County, California, Douglas County, Nevada and Lyon County, Nevada, as part of the 2021 California wildfire season. The fire was first reported burning on a rocky ridgetop on July 4, 2021, a result of a lightning strike. The ...
Around 20,000 people were under evacuation orders after the blaze, dubbed the Franklin Fire, broke out shortly before 11 p.m. Monday in the Malibu Canyon area, the Los Angeles County fire and ...
Parts of Southern California are under a rare red flag warning, deemed a “particularly dangerous situation,” and a level 3 of 3 extremely critical fire weather risk Tuesday because of the ...
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.