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The 2021 Dixie Fire was an enormous wildfire in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta, and Tehama counties in Northern California. [4] Named after a nearby Dixie Road, [5] the fire began in the Feather River Canyon near Cresta Dam in Butte County on July 13, 2021, and burned 963,309 acres (389,837 ha) before it was declared 100 percent contained on October 25, 2021. [6]
This year's still-raging Dixie fire quickly flared into one of the largest yet. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
It developed a smoke column which caused considerable fire activity, including a spot fire, on July 3. As a result, the area of Dixie Valley was put under an evacuation warning. By the morning of July 4, the fire had burned 670 acres (271 ha) and was 24 percent contained. [3] The fire continued to smolder, with little to no growth.
The Alaska Fire Season of 2004. The fire season of 2004 burned more than 6.6 million acres of land, making it the worst on record for the state of Alaska. Over the course of the year, there were a ...
At 3:00 a.m. Cal Fire announced that the fire had so far burned 45,549 acres (18,433 ha); [26] this made it the largest wildfire of the year in California, surpassing the 38,664-acre (15,647 ha) Lake Fire in Southern California's Santa Barbara County. [27] During the fire's first 12 hours, it grew at a rate of 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) per hour. [4]
A coalition of timber businesses filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the embattled Pacific Gas & Electric Co., alleging $225 million in damages caused by the 2021 Dixie Fire.
To descend the grade of State Highway 89 into the rubble of Greenville is to retrace the steps of a community’s trauma. It was here that the second largest wildfire in California history — and ...
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.