“This is our attempt to get people thinking about where these hazards are going to occur before there's even a fire,” said Jason Kean, a hydrologist at the USGS in Denver and lead author of the new study in AGU’s journal Earth’s Future. The results show Californians are now facing a double whammy of increased wildfire and landslide risk caused by climate change-induced shifts in the state’s wet and dry seasons, according to researchers who mapped landslide vulnerability in the southern half of the state. No deaths.Damage from a major post-wildfire landslide that occurred on 9 January 2018 near Montecito, Santa Barbara County as a result of the 2017 Thomas Fire. MARBLE CONE FIRE: Caused by lightning in July 1977. KLAMATH THEATER COMPLEX FIRE: Caused by lightning in June 2008. Destroyed 197,990 acres in San Diego County. WITCH FIRE: Caused by powerlines in October 2007. Burned 199,343 acres in Siskiyou and Trinity counties. RIVER COMPLEX FIRE: Caused by lightning in July 2021. Why California is having its best wildfire season in 25 yearsġ7. No structures destroyed or deaths recorded. Burned an estimated 220,000 acres in Ventura County. MATILIJA FIRE: Undetermined cause in September 1932. Burned 221,835 acres in Alpine, Amador and El Dorado counties and threatened communities near Lake Tahoe. CALDOR FIRE:Human-related cause in August 2021. MONUMENT FIRE: Caused by lightning in July 2021. Burned 229,651 acres in Shasta and Trinity counties. CARR FIRE:Human-related cause in July 2018. Burned 240,207 acres in Santa Barbara County. ZACA FIRE: Human-related cause in July 2007. RIM FIRE: Human-related cause in August 2013. Burned 271,911 acres in Lassen County and another 43,666 acres in the state of Nevada. RUSH FIRE: Caused by lightning in August 2012. Burned 273,246 acres in San Diego County. CEDAR FIRE: Human-related cause in October 2003. Burned 281,893 acres in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. THOMAS FIRE: Caused by powerlines in December 2017. Burned 318,935 acres in Butte, Plumas and Yuba counties. NORTH COMPLEX FIRE: Caused by lightning in August 2020. The LNU Lightning Complex fire evacuations forced Wine Country wineries to shut down during the harvest. Burned 363,220 acres in Napa, Solano, Sonoma, Yolo, Lake and Colusa counties. LNU LIGHTNING COMPLEX FIRE: Caused by lightning and arson in August 2020. The Mendocino Complex fire was California’s largest until surpassed by the Dixie and August Complex fires. Burned 459,123 acres in Colusa, Lake, Mendocino and Glenn counties. MENDOCINO COMPLEX FIRE: Human-related cause in July 2018. Burned 963,309 acres in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta and Tehama counties. DIXIE FIRE: Caused by powerlines in July 2021. Burned 1,032,648 acres in Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, Tehama, Glenn, Lake and Colusa Counties. AUGUST COMPLEX FIRE: Caused by lightning in August 2020. The top 20 fires destroyed nearly 16,000 structures and left more than 50 people dead.Ĭal Fire notes that there were large wildfires prior to 1932, but that records prior to that year are unreliable and that its list is meant to show the largest fires since then.ġ. The fires burned more than 6.5 million acres – an area more than twice the size of Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and Marin counties combined.įour of the top five fires occurred since 2020. This is a list of the top 20 California wildfires since 1932, according to Cal Fire.
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