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The fire sparked at 10:51 a.m. on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, near Cherokee Road and Thompson Flat Cemetery Road. [7] Within six hours, the fire grew from 15 acres (6.1 ha) to over 2,100 acres (850 ha), causing Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, declared a state of emergency in Butte County.
The Thompson Fire, which was reported shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday on the outskirts of Oroville in Butte County, had burned 2,136 acres as of 5:20 p.m., according to Cal Fire.
California had already endured an active fire season: by July 23, the day before the Park Fire ignited, approximately 287,000 acres (116,000 ha) had burned across the state. This was more than twice the year-to-date average. [6] Butte County, where the fire began, has endured several of the state's largest, deadliest, and most destructive ...
Smoke from the Park fire in Butte County shrouds trees in Upper Bidwell Park, northeast of Chico. (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) Cal Fire listed the fire at 71,489 acres ...
The Park fire in Butte County — the largest blaze in California this year — exploded to more than 239,000 acres by Friday evening, with its rapid spread destroying scores of buildings and ...
The fire has burned more than 315,000 acres in Tehama County and roughly 53,000 acres in Butte County. The wildfire has also impacted areas in Plumas and Shasta counties.
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 ...
The Thompson Fire, which has been burning in Butte County near Lake Oroville since 11 a.m. Tuesday, was 3,568 acres (5.5 square miles) as of noon Wednesday, according to the Cal Fire website.