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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. [1]
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...
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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).
2021 Fire Year. 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 ...
IncidentCountiesStartedAcresButte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama7/13/2021963,309Trinity7/30/2021223,124El Dorado, Alpine, Amador8/14/2021221,835Siskiyou, Trinity7/30/2021199,359Aug 10, 2021 · After burning through huge swaths of forest and reducing small Northern California towns to ash, the nation’s largest active wildfire continues to grow in hot and dry conditions even as...
Sep 17, 2021 · Aug. 8: The Dixie Fire is now 463,000 acres and the second-largest wildfire in California’s history, 26 days after it started. It has surpassed the Mendocino Complex Fire of 2018.
Oct 11, 2021 · In late August, New York Times journalists shadowed emergency crews in a remote forested area of Northern California as they battled the Dixie fire, which at nearly a million acres is the second...
