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The Butte Fire was a rapidly moving wildfire during the 2015 California wildfire season that started on September 9 in Amador County, California. [1] The fire burned 70,868 acres (287 km 2 ). The fire started at 2:26 P.M. on Wednesday, September 9, just east of Jackson , when a tree came into contact with a power line, and quickly grew to over ...
During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land. Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California are growing more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution ...
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Wildfires burn thousands of acres in the Northeast every fall season, and the majority of blazes are attributed to human causes such as campfires, burning debris and cigarettes. What has ...
A Chinook helicopter drops water on the Electra Fire in Pine Grove in Amador County on Tuesday, July 5, 2022. The fire had burned over 3,000 acres and there are mandatory evacuations in Amador and ...
Calaveras County (/ ˌ k æ l ə ˈ v ɛr ə s / ⓘ), officially the County of Calaveras, is a county in both the Gold Country and High Sierra regions of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,292. [6] The county seat is San Andreas. [7] Angels Camp is the county's only incorporated city.
Like most, I entered the park's main day-use area by way of State Routes 9 and 236 near Boulder Creek. The Redwood Loop Trail is a flat route that includes some of the park's biggest and oldest trees.
Calaveras County, California: 1,455: June 16: June 20: 2 structures destroyed [87] Grade Tulare County, California: 1,050: June 22: June 26 [88] Brown: White Pine County, Nevada: 8,268: June 24: June 30: The cause of the wildfire is still under investigation [89] Poeville: Washoe County, Nevada: 2,975: June 26: July 6: Led to evacuation of ...