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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
An enormous wildfire has grown by 8 sq miles an hour (20 sq km) as it spreads across parts of northern California. The Park fire, which started on Wednesday in a suspected arson attack, has burned ...
Here’s the latest: • Park Fire roars across parts of Butte and Tehama counties, north of Sacramento, California: As of Friday evening, the Park Fire has burned more than 239,000 acres, or ...
The Caldor Fire was a large wildfire that burned 221,835 acres (89,773 hectares) in the Eldorado National Forest and other areas of the Sierra Nevada in El Dorado, Amador, and Alpine County, California, in the United States during the 2021 California wildfire season. [ 2] The fire was first reported on Saturday, August 14, 2021, and was fully ...
Sherry Alpers checks on her dogs at a center for Park Fire evacuees in Chico, California, on Friday. - Noah Berger/AP • 102 large wildfires burning nationwide: Triple-digit heat and dry ...