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The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California's Butte County was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The fire began on the morning of Thursday, November 8, 2018, when part of a poorly maintained Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) transmission line in the Feather River Canyon failed during strong katabatic winds.
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 wildfires in the US state of California. California has dry, windy, and often hot weather conditions from spring through late autumn that can produce moderate to severe wildfires.
The Camp Fire destroyed more than 18,000 structures, becoming both California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire on record. AccuWeather estimated the total economic cost of the 2018 wildfires at $400 billion (2018 USD), which includes property damage, firefighting costs, direct and indirect economic losses, as well as recovery ...
“We need to hold the federal government to a much greater level of accountability for their ‘let it burn’ approach,” writes Sen. Brian Dahle.
The 2020 August Complex Fire in Northern California for instance, burned more than 1 million acres, but it only damaged 935 structures. The 2021 Dixie Fire, also in the North, had similar acre ...
The Park Fire is the fourth-largest in California’s history, and Baker is not the only person who lost a second house to it. Three other Camp Fire victims told NBC News similar stories of back ...
The blaze, which had grown to 23,448 acres, was 96% contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire. Cal Fire said the fire damaged or ...
At 3:00 a.m. Cal Fire announced that the fire had so far burned 45,549 acres (18,433 ha); [26] this made it the largest wildfire of the year in California, surpassing the 38,664-acre (15,647 ha) Lake Fire in Southern California's Santa Barbara County. [27] During the fire's first 12 hours, it grew at a rate of 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) per hour. [4]