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A fence smolders after a fast-moving grass fire burned Sunday, June 16, 2024, in an area of southeast Sacramento County. The Excelsior Fire burned more than 800 acres and destroyed at least two ...
Sacramento, CA - June 17, 2024 – The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District (Metro Fire) has completed the full containment of the Jackson Fire, which burned approximately 900 acres. The fire is ...
According to Cal Fire spokesperson Jason Clay, the Sites Fire had burned about 10,000 acres and was 0% contained as of 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. Clay said that winds of 10 to 20 mph, accompanied by low ...
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).
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office was requested to help evacuate residents of about 20 to 30 homes in the area, said Sgt. Amar Gandhi, a Sheriff’s Office spokesman.
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.
The 2022 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires throughout the U.S. state of California. By the end of the year, a total of 7,667 fires had been recorded, totaling approximately 363,939 acres (147,281 hectares) across the state. Wildfires killed nine people in California in 2022, destroyed 772 structures, and damaged another 104.
Sacramento Fire Department crews are responding to a grass fire in the Robla neighborhood of North Sacramento that has burned multiple structures and vehicles. ... The total area is approx 3-4 ...