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The 2024 California wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of California. As of July 2, 2024, a total of 2,872 wildfires have burned a cumulative 133,976 acres (54,218 ha). Year-to-date, the number of wildfires is below the five-year average; the number of acres burned is above it. [3]
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 ...
Mill Fire (2022) / 41.4303; -122.3852. The Mill Fire was a fast-moving, deadly and destructive wildfire that burned during the 2022 California wildfire season, destroying parts of the communities of Weed, Lake Shastina and Edgewood in Siskiyou County in the U.S. state of California. Igniting during hot, dry & windy conditions on September 2 ...
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.
Firefighters battled the 400-acre Sierra fire in Fontana as officials said SoCal was 'ready to burn.' In Fresno County, the Basin and June Lightning Complex fires grew.
The blaze was small compared to the largest blaze so far this year, dubbed the Post fire in Southern California. It moved quickly, burning more than 15,000 acres in a single day fueled by hot ...
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 ...
An increase in catastrophic wildfires has reduced California tree cover ... Los Angeles Times) ... from 1985 to 2019 and found that the odds of fires burning at high severity on private industrial ...