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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]
English: :Wildfire acres burned in the United States Number of acres of wildfire burned in a given year in the United States. This is shown from 1983 onwards, when consistent reporting began. Data prior to 1983 is reported by the NIFC to not be comparable to that thereafter. Version 6: (uploaded 2024-06-19) Data source: https://www.nifc.gov ...
In the Sierra Nevada town of Greenville, only a few buildings survived the 2021 Dixie fire. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
However, the number of acres burned is more than triple what’s normal, NIFC said. Last year saw a total of 56,580 wildfires across the country, consuming nearly 2.7million acres.
The deadliest wildfire event in U.S. history occurred in August 2023 on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The blaze devastated the historic town of Lahaina, where at least 102 people were killed and ...
California had already endured an active fire season: by July 23, the day before the Park Fire ignited, approximately 287,000 acres (116,000 ha) had burned across the state. This was more than twice the year-to-date average. [6] Butte County, where the fire began, has endured several of the state's largest, deadliest, and most destructive ...
The blaze grew to nearly half a million acres Sunday.
The Rough Ridge fire in the Cohutta Wilderness, believed to have started from a lightning strike October 16, [13] burned almost 11,300 hectares (28,000 acres), making it one of the largest fires ever in Georgia. The Rock Mountain fire was about 4,250 hectares (10,500 acres) and caused the evacuation of Dream Catcher Cove north of Tate City. [14]