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Jun 9, 2018 · Abstract. Two extreme wind-driven wildfire events impacted California in late 2017, leading to 46 fatalities and thousands of structures lost. This study characterizes the meteorological and climatological factors that drove and enabled these wildfire events and quantifies their rarity over the observational record.
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This section contains maps of the locations and burn areas of the fires that occurred during the largest outbreaks of the season. The burn areas of some major fires are included in some of the maps. 2017 California wildfires. Each dot shows the location (but not the extent) of a satellite-detected heat source.
Interactive historical 2017 wildfire map for the United States, including California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, and others. See historical wildfires and wildfire perimeters near you using the Fire, Weather & Avalanche Wildfire Map.
2017 Fire Year. In terms of property damage, 2017 was the most destructive wildfire year on record in California at the time. Throughout 2017, the fires destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 structures in the state (destroyed 9,470, damaged 810), a higher tally than the previous nine years combined. In total 9,133 fires burned 1,248,606 acres.
Oct 21, 2017 · The Tubbs fire destroyed at least 5,200 homes and structures, shown on the map below, making it the most destructive wildfire in state history, as well as one of the deadliest.
The October 2017 Northern California wildfires, also known as the Northern California firestorm, North Bay Fires, and the Wine Country Fires [7] were a series of 250 wildfires that started burning across the state of California, United States, beginning in early October. Twenty-one became major fires that burned at least 245,000 acres (99,148 ha).
Jul 17, 2017 · Check out this interactive map created by Esri, a mapping company in Redlands, Calif. which shows how many fires are burning in California in real time.
