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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 ...
To descend the grade of State Highway 89 into the rubble of Greenville is to retrace the steps of a community’s trauma. It was here that the second largest wildfire in California history — and ...
It developed a smoke column which caused considerable fire activity, including a spot fire, on July 3. As a result, the area of Dixie Valley was put under an evacuation warning. By the morning of July 4, the fire had burned 670 acres (271 ha) and was 24 percent contained. [3] The fire continued to smolder, with little to no growth.
Wildfires across the United States have destroyed more than 1.7 million acres of land in the first three months of 2024, already more than half of last year’s total.. Three large, uncontained ...
The blaze grew to nearly half a million acres Sunday.
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 ...
At 3:00 a.m. Cal Fire announced that the fire had so far burned 45,549 acres (18,433 ha); [26] this made it the largest wildfire of the year in California, surpassing the 38,664-acre (15,647 ha) Lake Fire in Southern California's Santa Barbara County. [27] During the fire's first 12 hours, it grew at a rate of 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) per hour. [4]