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Pages in category "Disasters in California" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill; 1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes; A.
September 25, 1939 – A tropical storm known as El Cordonazo, or The Lash of St. Francis, made landfall near Long Beach with sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h), which as of 2025 is the most recent tropical storm landfall in California. The storm killed 45 people across southern California, and another 48 people at sea, with residents caught ...
Periods of heavy rainfall caused by multiple atmospheric rivers in California between December 31, 2022, and March 25, 2023, resulted in floods that affected parts of Southern California, the California Central Coast, Northern California and Nevada. [3] [4] The flooding resulted in property damage [5] [6] [7] and at least 22 fatalities. [1]
The risk of mudslides during this weather event is high due to a devastating storm earlier this month that left California’s soil over-saturated. That same storm killed at least nine people and ...
Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on the Pacific Palisades fire for Wednesday, Jan. 8. For the latest updates on the Los Angeles wildfires in California, please read USA TODAY'S live ...
In Northern California, the list ... exposed how vulnerable the city of 970,000 was to natural disasters. But it was only in 2021 that it obtained a government grant to help fund efforts to ...
This list may not reflect recent changes. * List of California floods; List of earthquakes in California; 0–9. ... Category: Natural disasters in California.
1889 – Great Ellensburg Fire, Washington, resulted in the city's bid to become the state capital ending in failure. 1889 – Great Bakersfield Fire of 1889, California, destroyed 196 buildings and killed 1 person. 1889 – The First Great Fire of Lynn, Massachusetts, destroyed about 100 buildings and took over 2 weeks to put out. [26]