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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 Dixie Fire in July 2021 burned parts of Butte, Lassen, Plumas, Shasta and Tehama counties and lasted 104 days. The fire grew to a total of 963,309 acres before it was completely contained.
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.
1 death and 430 buildings burned in this arson fire near Santa Barbara. 1991: 1,520 acres (620 ha) Oakland Hills firestorm: California: Killed 25 and destroyed 3,469 homes and apartments within the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. 1993: 14,337 acres (5,802 ha) Laguna Beach Fire: California: Destroyed 441 homes, burned 14,337 acres causing ...
The Alaska Fire Season of 2004. The fire season of 2004 burned more than 6.6 million acres of land, making it the worst on record for the state of Alaska. Over the course of the year, there were a ...
The Camp Fire burned more than 150,000 acres in Butte County in November 2018, destroying more than 18,000 structures, killing 85 residents and fire personnel and injuring three in the 17 days it ...
The Dixie Fire in Northern California grew to 103,910 acres (about 162 square miles) by July 22, officials reported, forcing evacuations for multiple counties.Aerial footage taken by a member of ...
A study conducted in 2019 found that from 1972 to 2018, California saw a fivefold increase in the area burned in any given year, and an eightfold increase in the area burned by summer fires. [21] Another study estimated that the area burned between 1984 and 2015 could have been half of what it was without human-caused climate change. [26]