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The 2020 Creek Fire was a very large wildfire in central California's Sierra National Forest, in Fresno and Madera counties. One of the most significant fires of California's record-setting 2020 wildfire season, it began on September 4, 2020, and burned 379,895 acres (153,738 ha) over several months until it was declared 100% contained on December 24, 2020.
The 2021 KNP Complex Fire was a large wildfire in Sequoia National Park and the Sequoia National Forest in Central California 's Tulare County. After lightning ignited the Paradise and Colony fires in the southern Sierra Nevada on September 9, the twin blazes combined into the Complex and burned a total of 88,307 acres (35,737 hectares).
The 2020 California wildfire season, part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season, was a record-setting year for wildfires in California. Over the course of the year, 8,648 fires burned 4,304,379 acres (1,741,920 ha), [1][2] more than four percent of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land, making 2020 the largest wildfire ...
Cal Fire air tankers and hundreds of personnel have ascended across the state Friday to make further progress in controlling several notable wildfires burning in Northern and Central California ...
July 25, 2024 at 7:51 PM. A burning car pushed into a gully sparked California’s largest wildfire of the year, authorities said Thursday as they announced the arrest of a suspect. Meanwhile ...
Area burned per year. Remains of houses destroyed in the Oakland firestorm of 1991. Satellite image from October, 2003 including Cedar Fire, one of the largest wildfires in California history. Starting in 2001, the National Interagency Fire Center began keeping more accurate records on the total fire acreage burned in each state. [16] Year. Fires.
The general location of the Windy Fire in central California. The 2021 Windy Fire was a large wildfire in the Sequoia National Forest in Central California 's Tulare County. Begun by a lightning strike in the southern Sierra Nevada on September 9, the fire burned 97,528 acres (39,468 ha) over the course of a month, threatening communities like ...
The Basin Fire was a wildfire that burned through Fresno County in Central California between June 26 and July 20, 2024. It prompted numerous evacuations, and was the fourth fire to burn more than 14,000 acres as part of the 2024 California wildfire season.