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1866 – Great Portland Fire of 1866, Maine, destroyed the commercial district and left 10,000 homeless. 1866 – Great Fire of Quebec City, Quebec, razed an entire faubourg and left 20,000 homeless. 1868 – Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria. Arson destroyed 107 houses and 146 other buildings; 4 deaths.
The cause of the blaze remained under investigation as of Tuesday morning. The Sites Fire burns in Colusa County, California, as seen by a Cal Fire camera on Saint John Mountain shortly after 3:15 ...
Hills and canyons have seen brush or wildfires in 1914, the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and into today. [71] On occasion, lightning strikes from thunderstorms may also spark wildfires in areas that have seen past ignition. Examples of this are the 1999 Megram Fire, the 2008 California wildfires, [citation ...
September 10, 2024 at 10:05 AM. California's massive Line Fire continues to burn thousands of acres in San Bernardino County. As of Tuesday morning, the blaze reached 26,426 acres and was 5% ...
The 2020 California wildfire season, part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season, was a record-setting year for wildfires in California. Over the course of the year, 8,648 fires burned 4,304,379 acres (1,741,920 ha), [1][2] more than four percent of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land, making 2020 the largest wildfire ...
October 5, 2024 at 10:03 PM. Firefighters have halted forward progress on a wildfire that sparked Saturday afternoon near Dutch Flat and prompted mandatory evacuations in two Northern California ...
The River Fire was a destructive 2021 wildfire that burned 2,619 acres (1,060 ha) near Colfax in Nevada County and Placer County, California. The fire broke out on August 4, 2021, and burned 2,619 acres (1,060 ha) before it was fully contained on August 13, 2021. [1] The River Fire destroyed 142 structures, damaged 21 more, and resulted in four ...
The Bridge Fire is an active destructive wildfire in the Angeles National Forest, currently burning in Southern California's Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. The fire began on September 8. As of October 4, 2024, the fire has burned 55,518 acres (22,467 hectares) and is 99 percent contained. [1]