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Pages in category "Disasters in California" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of California. California has dry, windy, and ...
Pages in category "Natural disasters in California" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
California: 993 homes destroyed, 6 deaths. Simultaneous with the Cedar fire. 2003: 273,246 acres (110,579 ha) Cedar Fire: California: Third largest recorded fire in modern California history; burned 2,232 homes and killed 15 in San Diego County. 2004: 1,305,592 acres (528,354 ha) Taylor Complex Fire: Alaska: Largest wildfire by acreage of 1997 ...
On January 14, 2025, the Federal Emergency Management Agency opened two disaster recovery centers to help wildfire victims apply for financial assistance: one in West Los Angeles at the UCLA Research Park (the former Westside Pavilion) and the other in Pasadena at the Community Education Center of Pasadena City College. [285]
The resulting flooding in the Central Valley and other low-lying areas forced over 120,000 people from their homes and caused over $2 billion in property damage alone. 48 out of California's 58 counties were declared disaster areas with many streamflow gauge stations in these areas recording return intervals of over 100 years. It would take ...
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Hurricanes that affect California are mainly the remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms. In the twentieth century, only four eastern Pacific tropical cyclones have brought tropical storm-force winds to the Continental United States: the 1939 Long Beach Tropical Storm, Tropical Storm Joanne in 1972, Tropical Storm Kathleen in 1976, and Tropical Storm Nora in 1997.