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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 wildfires in the US state of California. California has dry, windy, and ...
At least 25 people have been killed and more than 40,000 acres burned as the wildfires race through southern California for a ninth day ... into the worst natural disaster in California history ...
It caused $78 million of damage ($1.74 billion in 2024 dollars), [16] making it one of the costliest natural disasters in Los Angeles' history. [17] In response to the floods, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies began to channelize local streams in concrete, and built many new flood control dams and debris basins.
Flames illuminate the night sky as a wildfire burns across a hillside in Pacific Palisades, California, on January 7, 2025. The most destructive fires in Los Angeles history kill at least five ...
The 2018 Camp Fire in the town of Paradise scorched more than 150,000 acres and was the deadliest wildfire in California's history. Ninety-five percent of the town burned in the fire.
The October northern California wildfires were a large group of forest fires that killed 44 people and destroyed 8,900 structures. [78] 2017: 281,893 acres (114,078 ha) Thomas Fire: California: Largest wildfire in modern California history at the time (1889 Santiago Canyon fire may have been larger).