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In January 2022, Cal Fire determined that the Dixie Fire, the largest fire of the 2021 California wildfire season and largest non-complex fire in recorded California history, was caused by a tree contacting PG&E electrical distribution lines.
- What We Know About The Mckinney Fire So Far
- This Year’S Dangerous Wildfire Season
- Why More Wildfires Are Likely to Happen
The McKinney Fire began to burn in the Klamath National Forest in Siskiyou County on July 29. There are now about 1,400 personnel working on the ground, according to fire officials. Firefighters initially believed the fire had begun to subside, but its magnitude significantly increased around midnight on Saturday as thunderstorms and dry fuel pushe...
The NIFC reports that there have been more than 5.7 million acres burned so far this year, with more than 39,000 fires recorded. That’s more than the area burned in all of 2019. And the number of fires is sure to increase—mirroring the upward trend seenin years including 2015, 2017 and 2020, when more than 10 million acres were engulfed by wildfire...
While wildfires are a natural part of California’s ecology, the current frequency and size of the fires is a recent development, which researchers believe is due to conditions created by climate change. Nine of the ten largest California wildfires occurred within the last five years, and research has suggested that climate change has doubled the nu...
Jul 31, 2022 · A fast-growing wildfire fueled by strong winds from thunderstorms and high temperatures in Northern California has grown to 55,000 acres, becoming the state’s largest wildfire so far this...
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Dec 1, 2022 · The state’s largest wildfire of the year, the Mosquito Fire, which burned 76,788 acres in national forests, turned out to be puny by recent standards, especially when compared to 2020’s million-acre giga fires and last year’s 963,000-acre Dixie Fire.
Dec 20, 2022 · The five largest wildfires recorded in the state have all occurred since 2018. But California’s wildfire record is punctuated with both “good” and “bad” fire years — a result of short ...
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Despite the 'quiet' year as measured i n acreage, a number of significant wildfires burned in California in 2022; these include the Oak Fire in Mariposa County, which burned over 180 structures, the McKinney Fire in Siskiyou County, which caused 4 fatalities, and the Mosquito Fire in Placer and El Dorado counties, which was California's largest ...
Aug 1, 2022 · YREKA, Calif. (AP) — Crews battling the largest wildfire so far this year in California braced for thunderstorms and hot, windy conditions that created the potential for additional fire growth Sunday as they sought to protect remote communities.
