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The CZU Lightning Complex fires were wildfires that burned in Northern California starting in August 2020. The fire complex consisted of fires in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, [1] including fires that had previously been separately tracked as the Warnella and Waddell fires. [2] The firefighting effort was primarily administered by the ...
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 ...
The August 2020 lightning fires included three enormous wildfires: the SCU Lightning Complex, the August Complex, and the LNU Lightning Complex. On September 10, 2020, the August Complex set a record for the single-largest wildfire in the modern history of California, reaching a total area burned of 471,185 acres (1,907 km 2 ).
The 2020 California wildfire season, part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season, was a record-setting year of wildfires in California. By the end of the year, 9,917 fires [1] had burned 4,397,809 acres (1,779,730 ha), [2] [3] [3] more than 4% of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land, making 2020 the largest wildfire season ...
Firefighters got the upper hand on a grass fire that began Saturday afternoon in San Joaquin County, California, but dangerous heat threatens to worsen the situation in the coming days.
The Dixie Fire was the largest and most destructive fire of the 2021 California wildfire season. It was the first fire known to have burned across the crest of the Sierra Nevada (followed by the Caldor Fire later in the season).
Inmate labor is far cheaper than paying Cal Fire staff or contractors. But could, and should, fire camps ever be full again?
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.