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The Poe Fire also did roughly $500,000 in damage to road and highway infrastructure (such as safety devices and signage), including Highway 70. [22] The total losses amounted to more than $6 million, on top of about $5 million in fire suppression costs. [5] At the time, the Poe Fire was the most destructive fire in the history of Butte County. [23]
The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California's Butte County was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's history. The fire began on the morning of Thursday, November 8, 2018, when part of a poorly maintained Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) transmission line in the Feather River Canyon failed during strong katabatic winds.
The 2021 Dixie Fire was an enormous wildfire in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta, and Tehama counties in Northern California. [4] Named after a nearby Dixie Road, [5] the fire began in the Feather River Canyon near Cresta Dam in Butte County on July 13, 2021, and burned 963,309 acres (389,837 ha) before it was declared 100 percent contained on October 25, 2021. [6]
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 often hot weather conditions from spring through late autumn that can produce moderate to severe wildfires.
The fire has burned more than 337,000 acres in Tehama County and nearly 53,000 acres in Butte County. The wildfire has also affected areas in Plumas and Shasta counties.
The Butte County District Attorney's office announced the arrest of Ronnie Dean Stout II (born January 10, 1982), a 42-year-old resident of Chico on July 25, the second day of the fire. Stout was held under suspicion of having ignited the Park Fire by pushing a flaming 2007 Toyota Yaris —belonging to his mother [ 62 ] —off an embankment in ...
Chief Garrett Sjolund, of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's Butte County unit, said "numerous structures" have been burned, including 134 buildings destroyed and an ...
Smoke from the Park fire in Butte County shrouds trees in Upper Bidwell Park, northeast of Chico. (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) Cal Fire listed the fire at 71,489 acres ...