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During the 2024 US wildfire season, on Monday, July 29, near the Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch, the Alexander Mountain Fire ignited before 11:00 am. By 12:20 pm, the burn area was 100 acres and spreading quickly, [12] growing to 245 acres by 12:45 pm. Near the mouth of the Big Thompson Canyon, [13] 37 square miles of Larimer County were evacuated, from County Road 18E from Pole Hill to Pinewood ...
A wildfire near a Colorado city grew to over 1,800 acres Tuesday morning as more homes were placed under mandatory evacuation orders and a looming column of smoke could be seen for miles around ...
The Mountain fire had burned more than 20,700 acres as of Friday evening, with parts of Camarillo and Moorpark hit hardest. The greatest devastation occurred Wednesday when the fire charged ...
False-color view of the burned area and smoke from the Park Fire in Northern California, viewed from the Landsat 9 satellite on July 27, 2024. By the end of spring (June 20), the total area burned by wildfires in California was nearly 90,000 acres (36,000 ha).
For example, about 58% of St. George, Utah’s 180,000 residents live in a “very high” wildfire risk area. Beyond metropolitan areas, FEMA maps show high-risk places in states not typically ...
The Mountain Fire began shortly before 9:00 a.m. PST on November 6 during an episode of strong Santa Ana winds in Southern California. [2] The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center delineated an "extremely critical" risk area on their Day 1 fire weather outlook, warning of low relative humidity values combined with a strong wind event with gusts of over 65 miles per hour (105 km/h ...
Santa Ana winds helped propel several fires across the region, but the Mountain fire exploded Wednesday, sweeping into foothill communities. Mountain fire ravages more than 90 homes; Newsom ...
The fire destroyed 5 homes and damaged 2 more. [80] 2018: 3,346,508 acres (1,354,284 ha) 2018 British Columbia wildfires: British Columbia: Initial estimates put 2018 as the largest total burn-area in any British Columbia wildfire season, surpassing the historic 2017 wildfire season. [76] [81] 2018: 108,043 acres (43,723 ha) Spring Creek Fire ...