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The 2020 Creek Fire was a very large wildfire in central California's Sierra National Forest, in Fresno and Madera counties. One of the most significant fires of California's record-setting 2020 wildfire season, it began on September 4, 2020, and burned 379,895 acres (153,738 ha) over several months until it was declared 100% contained on December 24, 2020.
The Creek Fire expanded in the Big Creek drainage area, temporarily trapping hundreds of campers near the Mammoth Pool Reservoir. The North Complex explosively grew in size as the winds fanned it westward, threatening the city of Oroville, triggering mass evacuations, and causing 16 fatalities. [13]
Big Creek is a 19.3-mile-long (31.1 km) tributary of the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada, within the Sierra National Forest, central California. The creek flows in Fresno County. [1] The settlement of Big Creek is named for it, as was the 2020 Creek Fire, which started in the Big Creek drainage and became one of California's largest ...
The Mountain Fire in California's Ventura County, whose explosive growth was fueled by 80-mph winds last week, has burned 32 square miles as of Tuesday. As winds slowed, firefighters raised the ...
A wildfire in Southern California has destroyed homes and prompted evacuations in Malibu, the iconic, affluent and mountainous beach community. 'Dangerous situation': Powerful, erratic Santa Ana ...
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 ...
The Park Fire, raging in Butte and Tehama counties, continued to chew through the Northern California wilderness Friday, crossing the 200,000-acre threshold that evening as more than 1,600 ...
The 2024 California wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of California. As of December 12, 2024 [update] , a total of 7,928 wildfires have burned a cumulative 1,049,452 acres (424,698 ha).