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The Cedar Fire was a massive, highly-destructive wildfire, which burned 273,246 acres (1,106 km 2) of land in San Diego County, California, during October and November 2003. [ 2][ 3] The fire's rapid growth was driven by the Santa Ana wind, causing the fire to spread at a rate of 3,600 acres (15 km 2) per hour. [ 2]
The October 2007 California wildfires, also known as the Fall 2007 California firestorm, [ 11] were a series of about thirty wildfires (17 of which became major wildfires) [ 8] that began igniting across Southern California on October 20. At least 1,500 homes were destroyed [ 12] and approximately 972,147 acres (about 3,934 km 2, or 1,520 mi 2 ...
MAP.SDSU.EDU - mapping, database and geographic information system for the 2003 and 2007 fires, managed by the San Diego GIS force group, and hosted by San Diego State University; The San Diego Fire Recovery Network - a Southern California organization which addresses the widespread ecosystem changes in San Diego County caused by the 2003 and ...
More than 1,000 people remained without power Tuesday, after widespread outages Monday, according to the San Diego Gas & Electric outage map. Although much of San Diego was under a flood watch all ...
Ramona is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Diego County, California. The population was 20,292 at the 2010 census. The name Ramona also refers to an unincorporated community of San Diego (with some plans to incorporate) [2] [3] that includes both the Ramona CDP and the adjacent CDP of San Diego Country Estates. The population of the two ...
On July 12, 2008, the area burned reached 801,726 acres (324,447 hectares), exceeding the estimated 800,000 acres (320,000 hectares) burned by the 2003 California wildfires, making the Summer 2008 wildfires the greatest wildfire event in Californian history, in terms of burned area. On that date 20,274 personnel had been committed to fight the ...
Crews with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department performed about 25 rescues Monday because of flooding from the San Diego and Tijuana rivers, along with vehicle rescues in various neighborhoods ...
The Witch Creek Fire, also known as the Witch Fire,[1]was the second-largest wildfire of the 2007 California wildfire season,[2]burning 197,990 acres (801 km2) of land in San Diego County. Fanned by powerful Santa Ana winds, the Witch Creek Fire rapidly spread westward and consumed large portions of San Diego County.