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Remains of houses destroyed in the Oakland firestorm of 1991 Satellite image from October, 2003 including Cedar Fire, one of the largest wildfires in California history. Starting in 2001, the National Interagency Fire Center began keeping more accurate records on the total fire acreage burned in each state. [16]
The gallery below highlights the 10 biggest fires the state has seen, according to Cal Fire as of July 29. All information in the gallery about fire size, cause, location, deaths and...
This chart from Cal Fire shows the top 20 fires by number of acres burned as of Sept. 10, 2021. (Cal Fire/Twitter) 1. August Complex. The August Complex, a series of lightning-sparked...
Explore the history of California wildfires with details on the top 20 largest, most deadly, and most destructive fires as well as interesting stats and figures.
August Complex Fire (2020): the largest wildfire in California’s history. The August Complex Fire was the result of around 30 separate lightning-caused fires in the Mendocino National Forest that eventually converged and burned over one million acres .
This is a list of the top 20 California wildfires since 1932, according to Cal Fire. The fires burned more than 6.5 million acres – an area more than twice the size of Santa Clara, San Mateo ...
How the fire compares to past years. The Park Fire has become the largest wildfire in California since the Dixie Fire, which sparked in July 2021 and went on to burn more than 963,000 acres. In...
Eight of the 10 largest wildfires in California history have occurred in the last five years.
The massive fire is now the fifth largest in recorded California history. What makes it memorable: The fire created two fire tornadoes , uprooting pine trees and creating more havoc.
The jump in size from the previous day meant that it moved from the fifth to the fourth largest recorded wildfire in California history, surpassing the 2020 SCU Lightning Complex incident,...