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2024 California wildfires. The 2024 California wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of California. As of August 15, 2024, a total of 5,195 wildfires have burned a cumulative 820,160 acres (331,910 ha). Year-to-date, the number of wildfires and the number of acres burned are higher ...
Bobcat Fire. / 34.241; -117.868. The Bobcat Fire was a large wildfire in Los Angeles County and one of the major incidents of the 2020 California wildfire season. The fire ignited on September 6, 2020, and burned 115,997 acres (46,942 ha) before it was fully contained by November 27. The Bobcat Fire primarily burned in the central San Gabriel ...
The 2022 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires throughout the U.S. state of California. By the end of the year, a total of 7,667 fires had been recorded, totaling approximately 363,939 acres (147,281 hectares) across the state. Wildfires killed nine people in California in 2022, destroyed 772 structures, and damaged another 104.
Los Angeles County's first major wildfire of the year swiftly grew to more than 16 square miles (41 square kilometers), one day after it forced the evacuation of at least 1,200 campers, off ...
List of California wildfires. 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 California wildfires.
June 17, 2024 at 11:56 PM. A fire in Los Angeles County that forced the evacuations of hundreds of people from a state park has burned more than 15,000 acres since it started Saturday, authorities ...
Woolsey Fire. / 34.2350; -118.7013. The Woolsey Fire was a wildfire that started in Los Angeles County and spread north to neighboring Ventura County, both located in the U.S. state of California. The fire ignited on November 8, 2018 and wasn't fully contained until November 21, 2018. The fire burned 96,949 acres (39,234 hectares) of land ...
California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, [103] and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti declared a state of emergency for the city. [104] The largest fire was the Thomas Fire , which grew to 281,893 acres, becoming California's largest modern wildfire at the time, since surpassed by the ...