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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 Gulick family had formed Camp WoHeLo before they had the idea to start the Camp Fire Organization. Camp Fire is the largest coeducational nonsectarian camp provider, operating more than 110 environmental and camp programs throughout the United States, and annually serving more than 34,000 school-age youth.
The catastrophic Camp Fire alone killed at least 85 people, destroyed 18,804 buildings and caused $16.5 billion in property damage, while overall the fires resulted in at least $26.347 billion in property damage and firefighting costs, [13] [15] [16] [17] [14] including $25.4 billion in property damage and $947 million in fire suppression costs.
CAMP FIRE CAUSE: PG&E power lines sparked the Butte County that killed 85 people last year, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century, Cal Fire said.
Five years ago today the Camp Fire ignited. It raged for more than two weeks, devastating the towns of Paradise, Concow and Magalia, killing 86 people and thousands of animals in the deadliest and ...
Researchers from Chico State University mapped a small part of the diaspora of Camp Fire evacuees a year after the fire, and found that more than 50% had moved 30 miles or more away from their ...
The Camp Fire in 2018, the North Complex Fire in 2020, and the Dixie Fire in 2021 all burned at least partially within Butte County. [2] The topography of the county ranges from the flat Central Valley in the west to the forested Sierra Nevada in the east, with grasslands , oak woodlands , and chaparral landscapes in between.
The Camp Fire burned for weeks in November 2018, killing 85 people and destroying more than 13,500 homes. Rick Pero narrowly survived with his wife, Lisa Stone.