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The Jesusita Fire was a wildfire that started on May 5, 2009, in the hills of Santa Barbara, California in the western United States. By the time the fire was contained on May 18 it had burned 8,733 acres (35.34 km 2 ), destroyed 80 homes and damaged 15 more before being 100% contained. [1] The cause of the fire was ultimately traced to local ...
The Thomas Fire was a massive wildfire that affected Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, and one of multiple wildfires that ignited in southern California in December 2017. It burned approximately 281,893 acres (440 sq mi; 114,078 ha) before being fully contained on January 12, 2018, making it the largest wildfire in modern California history ...
The October 2007 California wildfires, also known as the Fall 2007 California firestorm, [11] were a series of about thirty wildfires (17 of which became major wildfires) [8] that began igniting across Southern California on October 20. At least 1,500 homes were destroyed [12] and approximately 972,147 acres (about 3,934 km 2, or 1,520 mi 2) of ...
The Jesusita Fire was a wildfire that began at approximately 1:45 PM on May 5, 2009, in the hills of Santa Barbara, California. The fire burned 8,733 acres (35.34 km 2), destroyed 80 homes and damaged 15 more before being 100% contained. The La Brea Fire began near La Brea Creek in Santa Barbara County, inside of Los Padres National Forest.
The 2007 California wildfire season saw at least 9,093 separate wildfires that charred 1,520,362 acres (6,152.69 km 2) of land. [1] Thirty of those wildfires were part of the Fall 2007 California firestorm, [5] which burned approximately 972,147 acres (about 3,934 km 2, or 1,520 mi 2) of land from Santa Barbara County to the U.S.–Mexico ...
List of California wildfires. Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of California wildfires.
The largest of the wildfires was the Thomas Fire, which grew to 281,893 acres (1,140.78 km 2), and became the largest wildfire in modern California history, until it was surpassed by the Ranch Fire in the Mendocino Complex, in the following year.
2016 California wildfires A Skycrane makes a drop on the Sherpa Fire in June. Statistics Total fires 7,349 Total area 669,534 acres (2,709.51 km 2) Impacts Deaths 6 civilians killed, 2 firefighters killed Non-fatal injuries Unknown Damage >$480.3 million (2016 USD) Map A map of wildfires in California in 2016, using Cal Fire data Season ← 2015 2017 → In 2016, a total of 7,349 fires had ...