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The 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.
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Fires occur throughout the State within CAL FIRE...
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Fires occur throughout the State within CAL FIRE jurisdiction on a daily basis during fire season. However, the majority of those fires are contained quickly and no information will generally be provided on these incidents at this site if the fire burns less than 10 acres.
IncidentCountiesStartedAcresLos Angeles, San Bernardino9/08/202456,030Shasta10/09/20245,124San Diego10/31/202410San Diego10/31/202410On October 18, 2021, much of the state—particularly Northern California, where the majority of the significant fires had been located—received its first major precipitation since the start of the wildfire season. [14] This significantly lowered wildfire risk in the region.
NameCountyAcresStart DateOwens1,512May 1Southern5,366May 21,202May 14Sargents1,100May 30Jun 29, 2021 · Map draws on multiple sources including satellite imagery and agency websites to provide updated information on wildland fires in California and other Western states.
Jun 12, 2023 · This visualization shows the spread of the Caldor and the Dixie fires in California during the summer of 2021, updated every 12 hours from a new fire detection and tracking approach based on near-real time active fire detections from the VIIRS sensor on the Suomi-NPP satellite.
Aug 17, 2021 · Cal Fire’s latest update lists 14 large wildfires burning in the state, all but two in Northern California. Almost 12,500 firefighters were battling those blazes as of Friday, said the...
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Aug 27, 2021 · Northern California has so far borne the brunt of the 2021 fire season. One of the largest fires in the state’s history, the Dixie fire, has charred more than 860,000 acres. Meanwhile, the...