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2024 California wildfires. The 2024 California wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of California. As of August 16, 2024, a total of 5,313 wildfires have burned a cumulative 825,604 acres (334,110 ha). Year-to-date, the number of wildfires and the number of acres burned are higher ...
List of California wildfires. 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 California wildfires.
On September 10, 2020, the August Complex set a record for the single-largest wildfire in the modern history of California, reaching a total area burned of 471,185 acres (1,907 km 2 ). On September 11, the August Complex merged with the Elkhorn Fire, another massive wildfire of 255,039 acres (1,032 km 2 ), turning the August Complex into a ...
July 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM. Wildfires break out across California: Latest fire and smoke maps. Wildfires are exploding across the West, especially in California, where the Park Fire has now grown ...
Some of the wildfires as seen from space during the height of the summer outbreak on July 9, 2008. The 2008 California wildfire season was one of the most devastating in the state of the 21st century. While 6,255 fires occurred, [1] about two-thirds as many as in 2007, the total area burned— 1,593,690 acres (6,449.4 square kilometres) [2 ...
Injuries: 1 firefighter injured. Crews have significantly increased containment of the Point Fire overnight, increasing from 20% at 8 p.m. Monday to 40% by 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. The blaze is ...
Clouds of smoke glow orange from the Park fire burning along Highway 32 in Northern California's Butte County on Thursday. (Noah Berger / Associated Press) The Park fire in Butte County — the ...
Map. The general location of the Nixon Fire in Southern California. The Nixon Fire was a sizable wildfire that burned in Riverside county in Southern California. [ 1] It ignited on July 29, 2024, in the census-designated place of Aguanga in Riverside County. As of August 7, 2024, it has burned 5,222 acres (2,113 hectares) and is 100 percent ...