Before 2008, California had never seen more than a million acres burn in one year, but that year there were over 1.4 million ...
August Complex fire (2020) in far northwest California: 1,032,648 acres ... is only a tiny fraction of the size of the biggest blazes in state history. Even if the five fires currently burning ...
But while the January fires rank as the most destructive in Los Angeles history, they have not been as damaging as others in the Golden State. They are among only some of the worst wildfires ...
The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in California – already ranking as some of the most destructive in the state’s history ... the 25 largest have all happened this century.