7,162 wildfires burned 222,538 acres (900.58 km2) of land in the US state of California in 2005.
This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of California. California often has dry, windy, and hot weather from spring through late autumn, which can foment moderate to severe wildfires. Pre-1800, when the state was more...
During 2003, 9,116 wildfires burned 1,020,460 acres (4,129.7 km2) across the US state of California. In October, a major wildfire outbreak in Southern California burned more than 750,000 acres, destroyed thousands of homes, and killed two dozen...
A wildfire, forest fire, brushfire or a bushfire is an unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Some natural forest ecosystems depend on wildfire. Modern forest management often engages in prescribed burns to mitigate...
In 2016, a total of 7,349 fires had burned an area 669,534 acres (2,709.51 km2) in California, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Climatologists had predicted an extreme version of El Niño, known as a super El...
The Topanga Fire was a wildfire that ignited on September 28, 2005, in the Santa Susana Mountains, to the northwest of Chatsworth and the San Fernando Valley in Southern California.
The October 2007 California wildfires, also known as the Fall 2007 California firestorm, were a series of about thirty wildfires (17 of which became major wildfires) that began igniting across Southern California on October 20. At least 1,500 homes...
7,898 wildfires burned 311,024 acres (1,258.67 square kilometres) in the US state of California in 2004.
At least 9,093 separate wildfires charred 1,520,362 acres (6,152.69 km2) of land in the US state of California in 2007. Thirty of those wildfires were part of the Fall 2007 California firestorm, which burned approximately 972,147 acres (about 3,934...
