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A pair of fast-burning fires ignited Sunday in Riverside County, rapidly scorching hundreds of acres of brush. Several structures were destroyed. Hawarden and Eagle fires char 2,000 acres in ...
The 2023 California wildfire season was a series of significant wildfires that burned in the U.S. state of California during the calendar year. According to statistics published by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), a total of 7,127 fires burned a total of 324,917 acres (131,489 hectares).
October 18, 2024 at 2:47 PM. A grass fire burns above Interstate 580 in Oakland on Friday. (Noah Berger / Associated Press) Firefighters across the state were battling blazes Saturday in Oakland ...
Another Riverside County fire that broke out Thursday evening, near Banning, was mostly contained Friday afternoon. The Sunset fire, which ignited near Mesa and Gilman streets, remained at 103 ...
A sagging electrical line rubbed up against brush and ignited. The Fairview Fire is a deadly and destructive wildfire that burned during the 2022 California wildfire season southwest of Valle Vista and east of Hemet in Riverside County, California in the United States. The fire ignited on September 5, 2022, during a severe heatwave that had ...
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.
As of Friday, 5,435 wildland fires had burned 830,461 acres, compared with a five-year average of 5,325 fires and 583,913 acres over the same period, according to the California Department of ...
The Airport Fire was a wildfire that burned 23,526 acres (9,521 ha) in the Santa Ana Mountains in Southern California in September and October 2024. [1][2] The fire destroyed 160 structures in Orange and Riverside counties and caused 21 non-fatal injuries. At its peak, 20,780 structures were threatened by the fire.