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The largest of the blazes, the Palisades Fire, is more than 33 square miles. That’s half the land size of Washington, D.C. A second fire, the Eaton Fire, is now more than 22 square miles.
Wildfires continue to rage across Southern California, killing at least 16 people, destroying more than 12,000 structures and prompting evacuation orders for hundreds of thousands of residents who ...
Other major fires in the state include the Kenneth Fire near West Hills which is at 1,000 acres and 35% containment, the Hurst Fire near Sylmar at 771 acres with 70% containment and the Lidida ...
The Hog Fire was a wildfire that broke out on July 18, 2020, from an unknown cause near Susanville, the county seat of Lassen County, California. Within the first few days, the fire quickly spread to over 8,000 acres. [2] Hog grew to a mere 9,564 acres, before it was fully extinguished on August 17, 2020.
By July 29, more than 726,000 acres (294,000 ha) had burned across the state. [7] Fire activity decreased during August, but a long period of extreme heat across the Western United States during early September allowed numerous wildfires across the state to grow rapidly, such as the Line Fire, the Bridge Fire, and the Airport Fire in Southern ...
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 ...
The Hog Fire burning in California’s northeast grew to 9,000 acres on July 21, prompting evacuations in areas near Susanville.The fire first started on July 18 according to CAL FIRE and had ...
The scourge of wildfires in Los Angeles and the surrounding area are the most destructive in the city’s history, and the city’s fire chief said the region was still in the midst of an ...