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The Rough Fire was a major wildfire in Fresno County, California, and the largest of the 2015 California wildfire season.The fire was ignited by a lightning strike on July 31 and burned 151,623 acres (61,360 ha), largely in the Sierra National Forest and the Sequoia National Forest, before it was declared contained on November 6, 2015.
The National Interagency Fire Center reported in mid-August that the 2015 fire season had been the most destructive since 2011. Nationwide, a total of 6,058,694 acres (24,519 km 2 ) had burned, which is roughly triple the total land area burned from the same time span in 2014 . [ 6 ]
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Firefighters battled the 400-acre Sierra fire in Fontana as officials said SoCal was 'ready to burn.' In Fresno County, the Basin and June Lightning Complex fires grew. 'Southern California is ...
The fire is burning primarily in dry, dense grass within the Rough Fire scar from 2015, rangers said. The fire is burning at 2000-4500 elevation, northeast of Pine Flat Lake, west of the Spanish ...
The fire started about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday near the junction of Road 222 and Road 200. It is one of about a dozen fires across California that have started since Sept. 1
[11] [12] It found that in the 2020 and 2021 fire seasons 58% of the area affected by wildfires occurred in those two seasons since 2012. [ 11 ] [ 13 ] These two fires destroyed 30% of the habitat of 50 species as well as 100 species that had 10% of their habitats burn. 5-14% of the species' habitats burned at a "high severity."
Before 2015, Ishi Giant measured 255 ft (78 m) tall with a trunk volume of 38,156 cu ft (1,080.5 m 3), making it the fourteenth largest giant sequoia tree in the world. The trunk of tree featured a large, deep burn scar on its southern face with two large " buttresses " on either side of its trunk.