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The Copper Fire was a wildfire in Los Angeles County, Southern California, in June 2002. After igniting on June 5 near the city of Santa Clarita , the fire burned for a week and consumed 23,407 acres (9,472 hectares), damaging wildlife habitat and historic structures in the Angeles National Forest .
California land area totals 99,813,760 or roughly 100 million acres, so since 2000, the area that burned annually has ranged between 90,000 acres, or 0.09%, and 1,590,000 acres, or 1.59% of the total land of California. [2] During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land.
The firefighting effort was primarily administered by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). [ 1 ] The first fires started around 3:30 am on August 16, 2020, the result of a thunderstorm that produced close to 11,000 bolts of lightning and started hundreds of fires throughout California.
A shortwave infrared satellite image of burning buildings in Altadena on Wednesday. ... in California history — 2018's Camp Fire, which burned more than 13,000 buildings and killed 85 people ...
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 ...
The North Complex Fire was a massive wildfire complex that burned in the Plumas National Forest in Northern California in the counties of Plumas and Butte. [2] Twenty-one fires were started by lightning on August 17, 2020; by September 5, all the individual fires had been put out with the exception of the Claremont and Bear Fires, which merged on that date, and the Sheep Fire, which was then ...
A new brush fire dubbed the Sunset Fire ignited in Hollywood Hills yesterday evening, spurring mandatory evacuation orders. Meanwhile, the Palisades fire grew to more than 17,000 acres late yesterday.
The Line Fire is a large wildfire in San Bernardino County, California. The fire began on September 5, 6:33 PM near the community of Highland and spread into the San Bernardino National Forest . The fire forced the evacuation of multiple communities.