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The Thompson Fire, which has been burning in Butte County near Lake Oroville since 11 a.m. Tuesday, was 3,568 acres (5.5 square miles) as of noon Wednesday, according to the Cal Fire website.
At 12:50 p.m., the Sheriff’s Office announced mandatory evacuation orders were issued for zones 534, 535, 953 and 954 in Butte County. A temporary evacuation shelter has been opened at the ...
The wildfire, which started Tuesday morning on Cherokee Road, has charred 3,747 acres (5.85 square miles) and was 7% contained in the latest update from Cal Fire’s Butte County unit.
The fire has forced road closures and mandatory evacuations in Butte County, where the state’s deadliest wildfire, the Camp Fire, killed more than 85 people and destroyed thousands of homes in ...
The largest of several wildfires in the state is the Park Fire, burning in Butte and Tehama counties, just north of Chico, grew to over 350,000 acres and was 10% contained as of Saturday evening.
The 2021 Dixie Fire was an enormous wildfire in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta, and Tehama counties in Northern California. [4] Named after a nearby Dixie Road, [5] the fire began in the Feather River Canyon near Cresta Dam in Butte County on July 13, 2021, and burned 963,309 acres (389,837 ha) before it was declared 100 percent contained on October 25, 2021. [6]
The North Complex Fire was a massive wildfire complex that burned in the Plumas National Forest in Northern California in the counties of Plumas and Butte. [2] Twenty-one fires were started by lightning on August 17, 2020; by September 5, all the individual fires had been put out with the exception of the Claremont and Bear Fires, which merged on that date, and the Sheep Fire, which was then ...
Cal Fire’s Butte unit said in initial social media posts Monday evening that the fire, first reported at 30 acres, was burning with a “dangerous rate of spread.” The fire within two hours ...