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The south is one of the fastest growing regions with 88 million acres classified as WUI. The south consistently has the highest number of wildfires per year. More than 50,000 communities are estimated to be at high to very high risk of wildfire damage. These statistics are greatly attributable to the South's year-round fire season. [15]
However, from a historical perspective, it has been estimated that prior to 1850, about 4.5 million acres (17,000 km 2) burned yearly, in fires that lasted for months, with wildfire activity peaking roughly every 30 years, when up to 11.8 million acres (47,753 km 3) of land burned.
42,000 acres (170 km 2) Pipeline Fire: Kittitas 6,515 acres (26.37 km 2) Powerline Fire [20] Grant 7,800 acres (32 km 2) Williams Flats Fire: Okanogan 44,446 acres (179.87 km 2) Largest wildfire of the 2019 season 2016 Hart Fire Lincoln 18,220 39 0 Range 12 Fire [21] Yakima: 177,210 2016 Snake River Fire Garfield 11,452 acres (46.34 km 2)
The number of fires is only slightly higher than this time last year, but state data show that the acreage burned is more than 20 times greater. By this point in 2023, just over 3,000 blazes had ...
1 death and 430 buildings burned in this arson fire near Santa Barbara. 1991: 1,520 acres (620 ha) Oakland Hills firestorm: California: Killed 25 and destroyed 3,469 homes and apartments within the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. 1993: 14,337 acres (5,802 ha) Laguna Beach Fire: California: Destroyed 441 homes, burned 14,337 acres causing ...
According to a congressional report, 89% of the country’s wildfires between 2018 and 2022 were human-caused, but those triggered by lightning tend to burn more acres.
The total number of wildfires was slightly higher than the five-year average, while the total number of acres burned was lower. [3] Wildfires destroyed a total of 1,716 structures and killed one person in the state in 2024. This season had the most burned acres since the 2021 wildfire season.
At least four wildfires erupted over the weekend and burned about 600 acres of land. By Sunday evening, the largest of the wildfires, which burned in the Pine Barrens, was 100% contained ...