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In 2024, more than 7,500 wildfires burned over 1,040,525 acres of land in California and destroyed over 1,708 structures, not including those destroyed in the Mountain Fire.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) [2] [3] is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California.It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests.
It was active from June 1 to June 6, 2024, and was 100% contained as of August 2024. It was the first fire of the 2024 California wildfire season to burn more than 2,000 acres, and was the largest wildfire of the season until the Post Fire began 9 days after the Corral Fire was declared contained. The burn area contained Site 300, the only ...
The Mountain Fire began shortly before 9:00 a.m. PST on November 6 during an episode of strong Santa Ana winds in Southern California. [2] The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center delineated an "extremely critical" risk area on their Day 1 fire weather outlook, warning of low relative humidity values combined with a strong wind event with gusts of over 65 miles per hour (105 km/h ...
May 21—The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) announced that it will suspend all burn permits for outdoor residential burning within the State Responsibility Area ...
California will become the first state in the nation to require insurance premium discounts for owners of homes and businesses that are made safer from wildfires.
The 2024 California wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of California. As of December 13, 2024, a total of 7,934 wildfires have burned a cumulative 1,049,452 acres (424,698 ha). Year-to-date, the number of wildfires and the number of acres burned are higher than the five-year ...
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