2020 California wildfires
The 2020 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the state of California in the United States.
As of September 9, 2020, a total of 7,606 fires have burned 2,936,955 acres (1,188,544 ha), making 2020 the largest wildfire season recorded in California history.[1][2]
Climate change has increased the risk of wildfires in California.[3]
2020 California Wildfires Media
Five of the twenty largest wildfires in California history were part of the 2020 wildfire season.
The Los Angeles Times on 13 September described the fire as a climate apocalypse.
The Government of California's video about COVID-19 protocols in place at wildfire evacuation centers.
Smoke from the Slater fire on September 8
This is a map of the footprint of the 2020 Apple Fire in Southern California's Riverside County, where the fire burned more than 33,000 acres. This image was made in QGIS using data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), OpenStreetMap, USGS, and others.
This is a map of the footprint of the 2020 North Complex Fire in Northern California's Plumas and Butte counties. The fire burned more than 300,000 acres and killed sixteen people, becoming one of the largest and deadliest fires in state history. This map was made in QGIS using data from Cal Fire, USGS, USFS, NPS, the US Census Bureau, and OpenStreetMap.
References
- ↑ Holly Yan; Cheri Mossberg; Artemis Moshtaghian; Paul Vercammen (September 6, 2020). "California sets new record for land torched by wildfires as 224 people escape by air from a 'hellish' inferno". Cable News Network. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
- ↑ Silverman, Hollie (8 September 2020). "California wildfires have burned more than 2 million acres and prompted power outages for more than 170,000". CNN. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ Mulkern, Anne C. (2020-08-24). "Fast-Moving California Wildfires Boosted by Climate Change". Scientific American. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
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