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The 2021 Dixie Fire was an enormous wildfire in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta, and Tehama counties in Northern California. [4] Named after a nearby Dixie Road, [5] the fire began in the Feather River Canyon near Cresta Dam in Butte County on July 13, 2021, and burned 963,309 acres (389,837 ha) before it was declared 100 percent contained on October 25, 2021. [6]
The Dixie-Jumbo Fires are a complex of wildfires that burned in Idaho. The fires started near Riggins , Idaho on July 5, 2021. It burned at least 20,947 acres (8,477 ha).
In January 2021 alone, 297 fires burned 1,171 acres (4.74 km 2) on nonfederal land according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which is almost triple the number of fires and more than 20 times the acreage of the five-year average for January.
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. [3] During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land.
California had already endured an active fire season: by July 23, the day before the Park Fire ignited, approximately 287,000 acres (116,000 ha) had burned across the state. This was more than twice the year-to-date average. [6] Butte County, where the fire began, has endured several of the state's largest, deadliest, and most destructive ...
English: :Wildfire acres burned in the United States Number of acres of wildfire burned in a given year in the United States. This is shown from 1983 onwards, when consistent reporting began. Data prior to 1983 is reported by the NIFC to not be comparable to that thereafter. Version 6: (uploaded 2024-06-19) Data source: https://www.nifc.gov ...
The south is one of the fastest growing regions with 88 million acres classified as WUI. The south consistently has the highest number of wildfires per year. More than 50,000 communities are estimated to be at high to very high risk of wildfire damage. These statistics are greatly attributable to the South's year-round fire season. [15]
The West Valley Fire was reported on June 27 at approximately 3:00 PM burning in the Dixie National Forest, 10 miles north of St. George, Utah. The fire was started by an abandoned campfire . [ 1 ] By June 29, the fire had grown 7,200 acres (29 km 2 ), burning into the Mill Flat Fire scar from 2006, slowing the fire's progression north-northeast.