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By the end of 2024, a total of 8,024 wildfires burned a cumulative 1,050,012 acres (424,925 ha) throughout the U.S. state of California. 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 ...
According to statistics published by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), a total of 7,127 wildfires burned a total of 324,917 acres (131,489 hectares) in the U.S. state of California in 2023. This was below the state's five-year average of 1,722,059 acres (696,893 ha) burned during the same period.
It was active from June 1 to June 6, 2024, and was 100% contained as of August 2024. It was the first fire of the 2024 California wildfire season to burn more than 2,000 acres, and was the largest wildfire of the season until the Post Fire began 9 days after the Corral Fire was declared contained. The burn area contained Site 300, the only ...
The Park Fire, as of Monday afternoon, has burned a total of 370,237 acres (578 square miles), and 12% of the wildfire had been contained, according to Cal Fire. The fire has burned more than ...
California is seeing an active fire season. Wildfires have scorched over 838,000 acres throughout the state so far this year, compared to 255,144 acres by this time last year, according to Cal Fire .
August 3, 2024 at 8:55 PM. ... a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. ... The national wildfire season has had an intense start, raising the risk ...
The fire ignited north of Pepperdine University, on Malibu Canyon Road, at approximately 11 p.m. on December 9, 2024. [1]The fire had reached about 300 acres (120 ha) at around 1:00 a.m. and ran towards Pepperdine University, reaching over 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) by December 11.
As of 7:46 p.m., the fire had burned 14,148 acres and was not contained, according to the latest incident update released by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.