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The 2024 California wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of California. As of September 26, 2024 [update], a total of 6,401 wildfires have burned a cumulative 995,977 acres (403,058 ha). Year-to-date, the number of wildfires and the number of acres burned are higher than the five ...
The number of extreme fall fire-weather days in California has more than doubled since the early 1980s because of warmer and drier autumns as global temperatures rise because of climate change, a ...
PHOTO: Cal Fire firefighters tackle the Bridge Fire threatening mountain communities to the northeast of Los Angeles, in Wrightwood, California, U.S. September 11, 2024.
July 25, 2024 at 7:51 PM. A burning car pushed into a gully sparked California’s largest wildfire of the year, authorities said Thursday as they announced the arrest of a suspect. Meanwhile ...
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.
The 2021 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the U.S. state of California. By the end of 2021 a total of 8,835 fires were recorded, burning 2,568,948 acres (1,039,616 ha) across the state. [1] Approximately 3,629 structures were damaged or destroyed by the wildfires, and at least seven firefighters and two ...
A firefighter walks up a hill as the Bridge Fire burns near homes in Wrightwood, California, on Tuesday. - Jae C. Hong/AP • Bridge Fire in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties: A fire inside ...
California land area totals 99,813,760 or roughly 100 million acres, so since 2000, the area that burned annually has ranged between 90,000 acres, or 0.09%, and 1,590,000 acres, or 1.59% of the total land of California. [2] During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land.