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A series of life-threatening fire have destroyed homes and taken lives across Los Angeles County and surrounding areas this month. CNN is tracking the fires in maps and charts.
By the end of 2024, a total of 8,024 wildfires burned a cumulative 1,050,012 acres (424,925 ha) throughout the U.S. state of California.The total number of wildfires was slightly higher than the five-year average, while the total number of acres burned was lower. [3]
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. [3] During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land.
There are 14 active wildfires currently burning across California ... 838,000 acres throughout the state so far this year, compared to 255,144 acres by this time last year, according to Cal Fire.
An extremely critical fire weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for wildfire events in the United States. On the scale from one to three, an extremely critical is a level three; thus, these outlooks are issued only when forecasters at the SPC are confident of extremely dangerous wildfire ...
An estimated 343,253 acres have burned across the state so far in 2024, compared to 22,439 acres burned by this time last year, according to Cal Fire. Ronnie Dean Stout II was arrested in ...
Here’s where the smoke from the Park Fire – the largest California fire of the year ... The current forecast runs to Sunday. Park Fire smoke forecast Sources: National Weather Service, NOAA ...
Average UV at noon 1996-2002 (European Space Agency) The ultraviolet index, or UV index, is an international standard measurement of the strength of the sunburn-producing ultraviolet (UV) radiation at a particular place and time. It is primarily used in daily and hourly forecasts aimed at the general public.