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  2. List of California floods - Wikipedia

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    The resulting flooding in the Central Valley and other low-lying areas forced over 120,000 people from their homes and caused over $2 billion in property damage alone. 48 out of California's 58 counties were declared disaster areas with many streamflow gauge stations in these areas recording return intervals of over 100 years. It would take ...

  3. List of California wildfires - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Category:Disasters in California - Wikipedia

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    This category includes articles on disasters in the United States State of California Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disasters and accidents in California . Subcategories

  5. Laguna Fire (1993) - Wikipedia

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    Orange County's sheriff, Brad Gates, deemed the fire the worst in Orange County history. [8] California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection records indicate that at the time the fire was the sixth most destructive wildfire in California history, [23] since surpassed by many others. [24] The fire resulted in $528 million in property damage.

  6. Category:Natural disasters in California - Wikipedia

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  7. List of accidents and disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.

  8. Worst fires in California history: Dixie, Camp and more - AOL

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    California fire seasons are growing longer and more destructive. This year's still-raging Dixie fire quickly flared into one of the largest yet. Worst fires in California history: Dixie, Camp and more

  9. Los Angeles flood of 1938 - Wikipedia

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    It caused $78 million of damage ($1.69 billion in 2023 dollars), [2] making it one of the costliest natural disasters in Los Angeles' history. [3] In response to the floods, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies began to channelize local streams in concrete, and built many new flood control dams and debris basins.