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Burned near Interstate 5 and Castaic Lake, 1 structure destroyed and 7 firefighters injured [53] [54] Border 32 Fire: San Diego: 4,456: August 31, 2022: September 5, 2022: Burned near U.S./Mexico border, 10 structures destroyed [55] Mill Fire: Siskiyou: 3,935: September 2, 2022: September 13, 2022
Orange Skies Day was a climatological event that occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area on September 9, 2020. [1] [2]The orange-colored hue in the sky was the result of smoke from the North Complex Fire (including the Bear Fire) and more than 20 other wildfires, which burned more than 2 million acres east of the San Francisco Bay Area. [3]
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 ...
Wildfire near San Francisco 50% contained after it burns 14,000 acres and forces evacuations ... right up to the homes” in the area and destroyed one house. ... the fire was reported at 2.39pm ...
The fire complex consisted of fires in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, [1] including fires that had previously been separately tracked as the Warnella and Waddell fires. [2] The firefighting effort was primarily administered by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire).
"The Crises in the Skies of San Francisco". The New Yorker. Rexroat, Rex (April 20, 2021). "The Day the San Francisco Sky Turned Orange". The New Yorker. On September 9, 2020, a convergence of wildfire smoke and fog cast an eerie tint over the Bay Area.
The blaze—dubbed the Border 32 Fire due to it being the thirty-second fire of significance for the year of 2022 in close proximity to the United States-Mexican border—sparked at 2:15 PM PDT off Barrett Lake Road and state Route 94 in the Barrett Junction area just southeast of Dulzura and was initially pegged at 30 acres in size but with a dangerous-to-critical rate of spread as it moved ...
The August 2020 California lightning wildfires (also referred to as the August lightning siege or August wildfire siege) were a series of 650 wildfires that ignited across Northern California in mid-August 2020, due to a siege of dry lightning from rare, massive summer thunderstorms, which were caused by an unusual combination of very hot, dry air at the surface, dry fuels, and advection of ...