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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.
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 4, 2024, a total of 4,854 wildfires have burned a cumulative 778,151 acres (314,907 ha). Year-to-date, the number of wildfires and the number of acres burned are higher than the five-year average. [3]
Sensors at Fortuna detected the earthquake at 02:34 and issued warnings as far as the California–Oregon border, south of San Jose, past Shasta County and to Medford, Oregon. The warning issued was the most widespread since the system went public in 2019. [27]
July 5, 2024 at 10:25 PM. Tens of thousands of people in northern California have been allowed to return to their homes after evacuating as wildfires spread in the region during a heatwave ...
Through the last full day of spring on Wednesday, wildfires had burned almost 90,000 acres in California compared with only 5,863 acres by the same point last year, according to Cal Fire data ...
Updated July 27, 2024 at 6:37 PM. Active wildfires across California have consumed more than 626,000 acres as of Saturday, according to Cal Fire. California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of ...
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Collectively, Cal Fire said, the fires are 34% contained. Six other wildfires that started in the last two weeks and burned more than 200 acres are still active in California, according to Cal ...