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- 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.
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5 days ago · Find up-to-date statistics on CA wildfires and CAL FIRE activity. We combine state and federal data to track the number of fires and acres burned in California. Current Year
- 2021 Fire Season Incident Archive | CAL FIRE
The 2021 wildfire season in California experienced an...
- WILDFIRES Figure 1. Statewide annual acres burned, 1950-2021
The data presented in Figure 1 show the number of acres...
- 2021 Fire Season Incident Archive | CAL FIRE
In January 2021 alone, 297 fires burned 1,171 acres (4.74 km 2) on nonfederal land according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which is almost triple the number of fires and more than 20 times the acreage of the five-year average for January.
NameCountyAcresStart DateOwens1,512May 1Southern5,366May 21,202May 14Sargents1,100May 30The 2021 wildfire season in California experienced an unusually early start amid an ongoing drought and historically low rainfall and reservoir levels. In January 2021 alone, 297 fires burned 1,171 acres on nonfederal land, which is almost triple the number of fires and more than 20 times the acreage of the five-year average for January.
IncidentCountiesStartedAcresButte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama7/13/2021963,309Trinity7/30/2021223,124El Dorado, Alpine, Amador8/14/2021221,835Siskiyou, Trinity7/30/2021199,359The data presented in Figure 1 show the number of acres burned by wildfires statewide each year. The total area burned annually since 1950 ranged from a low in 1963 of 32,000 acres to a record high in 2020 of 4.2 million acres – more than 4 percent of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land.
Ongoing emergency responses in California, including all 10+ acre wildfires. ... pace with the five-year average, the number of acres burned is much higher than the ...
Jul 13, 2022 · While it’s too early to tell what this year’s damage will be, a look at the five-year rolling averages of acres burned by wildfires in California shows that, despite a quiet 2019, the...
Results. During 2020 and 2021, 19,090 km 2 burned in California, of which 84% (16,069 km 2) burned in the Western Cordillera (Fig. 1). These 2 y account for 58% of the area in California that burned from 2012 to 2021, and in each year, the total area burned was >10× greater than the historical average from 1878 to 2011.