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The Loma Fire was a wildfire that broke out on September 26, 2016, in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara County, California.By the time the fire was contained on October 12, the fire had burned 4,474 acres (18 km 2) of land and had destroyed 12 residences and 16 outbuildings.
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Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of California. California has dry, windy, and ...
By the end of 2024, a total of 8,024 wildfires burned a cumulative 1,050,012 acres (424,925 ha) throughout the U.S. state of California. The total number of wildfires was slightly higher than the five-year average, while the total number of acres burned was lower. [ 3 ]
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The fire started near Tubbs Lane in the rural northern part of Calistoga, in Napa County. It destroyed more than 5,643 structures, [1] [3] [13] half of which were homes in Santa Rosa. [14] Santa Rosa's economic loss from the Tubbs Fire was estimated at $1.2 billion (2017 USD), with five percent of the city's housing stock destroyed. [4]
The Highway Fire near Bonsall and Fallbrook, started at 1 PM on May 14, near Interstate 15 and California State Route 76. Several schools and about 600 residents were evacuated. By 6 PM PDT on May 15, the fire was 100% contained, after reaching a size of 441 acres (178 ha). [38]
It was one of many wildfires in a massive conflagration that spanned across the state from September 22 to October 4, 1970. [2] At the time, it was the second-largest fire in the recorded history of California after the 1932 Matilija Fire [ 1 ] (not counting the Santiago Canyon Fire in 1889, which experts estimate burned approximately 300,000 ...