Search results
Results from the Tech24 Deals Content Network
The 2009 California wildfires were a series of 9,159 wildfires that were active in the US state of California, during the year 2009. The fires burned more than 422,147 acres (660 sq mi; 1,708 km 2) of land from early February through late November, due to Red Flag conditions, destroying hundreds of structures, injuring 134 people, and killing four.
Station Fire (2009) / 34.251; -118.195. The Station Fire was the largest wildfire of the 2009 California wildfire season, as well as the largest wildfire in the history of Los Angeles County. It burned in the Angeles National Forest, igniting on August 26, 2009, near the U.S. Forest Service Angeles Station 11 ranger station on the Angeles Crest ...
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 fires broke out after three years of below-normal rainfall dehydrated much of California's forests and woodlands, making them prone to wildfires. Spring 2008 for California was the driest on record for many locations; for example, San Francisco registered only 0.67 inches (17 mm) of rain out of a normal of 5.18 inches (13 cm) from March to May.
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 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 ...
Pages in category "2009 California wildfires" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 ...