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- The fire burned over two days and nights, killed 86 people and ended only with rainfall and snow.
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The 2020 California wildfire season, part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season, was a record-setting year for wildfires in California. Over the course of the year, 8,648 fires burned 4,304,379 acres (1,741,920 ha), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] more than four percent of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land, making 2020 the largest wildfire ...
Jul 29, 2021 · Thirty-one people lost their lives from California’s wildfires in 2020. It’s not the worst-ever total, but it is the third most-deadly year since 2013. One fire alone, the North Complex, claimed the lives of 15 of those people.
Sep 28, 2020 · Nearly nine times as many people have died in 2020 as a result of the fires, compared to lives lost in 2019. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) confirmed that 26...
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As of the end of the year, nearly 10,000 fires had burned over 4.2 million acres, more than 4% of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land, making 2020 the largest wildfire season recorded in California's modern history.
IncidentCountiesStartedAcresMendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, Tehama, ...8/16/20201,032,648Santa Clara, San Joaquin, Contra Costa, ...8/16/2020396,624Fresno, Madera9/04/2020379,895Napa, Solano, Lake, Sonoma, Yolo8/17/2020363,220Sep 17, 2020 · A fire service spokesman said 42,000 people in the area had been affected. Many had lost their homes, while others had to be evacuated or had been left without electricity.
Oct 17, 2018 · We're track key data on the wildfires that are burning across California: land consumed, lives lost, growing firefighting costs.
Sep 17, 2020 · Dozens of wildfires have been burning their way through swathes of the US West Coast over the last month, killing more than 30 people and forcing tens of thousands from their homes.
