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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.
The 2022 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires throughout the U.S. state of California. By the end of the year, a total of 7,667 fires had been recorded, totaling approximately 363,939 acres (147,281 hectares) across the state. Wildfires killed nine people in California in 2022, destroyed 772 structures, and damaged another 104.
2024 →. The 2023 California wildfire season was a series of significant wildfires that burned in the U.S. state of California during the calendar year. According to statistics published by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), a total of 7,127 fires burned a total of 324,917 acres (131,489 hectares).
A wildfire likely caused the rare weather phenomenon of fire tornadoes in Northern California.. The tornadoes stemmed from the Park Fire, which started after a 42-year-old man from Chico allegedly ...
Blazes from the Park Fire, started by an alleged arsonist who pushed a flaming car down a 60-foot gully near Chico, California, on July 24, has since burned more than 400,000 acres (162,200 ...
July 27, 2024 at 12:07 PM. Firefighters, aided by improving weather conditions, began to get a handle Saturday on the Park Fire, now the seventh-largest wildfire in California history at over ...
The 2021 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the U.S. state of California. By the end of 2021 a total of 8,835 fires were recorded, burning 2,568,948 acres (1,039,616 ha) across the state. [ 1 ] Approximately 3,629 structures were damaged or destroyed by the wildfires, and at least seven firefighters and two ...
Fire weather watches and warnings were in effect Saturday for parts of Oregon, Washington, Nevada, southern Idaho, Utah and California, the center said. ... means prime fire conditions — high ...