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[1] [2] The fire was the fifth-largest of the 2002 California wildfire season, in which 8,171 wildfires burned a total of 538,216 acres (217,808 ha). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the winter and spring before the Copper Fire, Southern California received very little rain, marking its fourth year of below-normal precipitation.
The 2024 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned throughout the U.S. state of California. By the end of the year, a total of 8,024 wildfires burned a cumulative 1,050,012 acres (424,925 ha).
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.
On September 10, a car fire started a fire in the Bella Vista area. [63] On September 16, the Gulch Fire was fully contained after burning 1,375 acres (556 ha). [64] The wildfire has also injured a total of 4 people. [64] The damage caused by the Gulch Fire is currently unknown.
The 2007 California wildfire season saw at least 9,093 separate wildfires that charred 1,520,362 acres (6,152.69 km 2) of land. [1] Thirty of those wildfires were part of the Fall 2007 California firestorm, [5] which burned approximately 972,147 acres (about 3,934 km 2, or 1,520 mi 2) of land from Santa Barbara County to the U.S.–Mexico border. [6]
More rounds of storms may follow later in February, March and perhaps in April. This would make a dramatic difference when compared to the 2021-2022 winter when storms became much less frequent ...
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The 2004 California wildfires were a series of wildfires that were active in the state of California during the year 2004. In total, 7,898 fires [ 1 ] burned 311,024 acres (1,258.67 square kilometres).