List of California wildfires (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "List of California wildfires" in English language version.

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"Top 20 Most Destructive California Wildfires" (PDF). from fire.ca.gov. CalFire. January 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 22, 2025. (Supplements December 2024 version with early 2025 data)
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"Top 20 Deadliest California Wildfires" (PDF). January 28, 2025.
"Top 20 Most Destructive California Wildfires" (PDF). January 28, 2025.

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"Climate change: What role is it playing in the California fires". www.bbc.com. Retrieved January 9, 2025.

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"California Wildfires and Acres for all Jurisdictions" (PDF). CalFire. August 24, 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 28, 2022. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
"2002 Large Fires" (PDF). CAL FIRE. February 11, 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 8, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
"Large Fires 2003" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 25, 2018. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
"Large Fires 2004" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 25, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
"2017 Incident Archive". 2019. Archived from the original on September 4, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
"2018 Incident Archive". CAL FIRE. 2020. Archived from the original on September 5, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
"2019 Incident Archive". fire.ca.gov. Archived from the original on September 10, 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
"2020 Incident Archive". CAL FIRE. Archived from the original on June 28, 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
"2021 Incident Archive". CAL FIRE. Archived from the original on January 15, 2022. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
"2022 Incident Archive". CAL FIRE. Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
"2023 Incident Archive". CAL FIRE. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
"2024 Incident Archive". www.fire.ca.gov. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). Retrieved August 16, 2024.

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"Otay Fire". CAL FIRE. October 27, 2003. Archived from the original on February 15, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
"Large Fires 2005" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
"Large Fires 2006" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 18, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
"Large Fires 2009" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 5, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
"Large Fires 2011" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 24, 2016. Retrieved August 21, 2015.

calfire.ca.gov

Ken Pimlott; John Laird; Edmond G. Brown Jr. (September 3, 2014). "2013 Wildfire Statistics" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 30, 2016. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
Ken Pimlott (2015). "2014 Wildfire Activity Statistics" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 30, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
Ken Pimlott (2017). "2016 Wildfire Activity Statistics" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 12, 2018. Retrieved September 11, 2018.

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"California Wildfire Emission Estimates | California Air Resources Board". ww2.arb.ca.gov. Archived from the original on August 30, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.

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Stephens, Scott L.; Martin, Robert E.; Clinton, Nicholas E. (November 15, 2007). "Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands". Forest Ecology and Management. 251 (3): 210. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.06.005. ISSN 0378-1127. Archived from the original on August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2020. area burned annually in California varied from 1,814,614 to 4,838,293 ha (excluding the desert region in Southeastern California) during the prehistoric period. With the land area of California equaling 40,396,822 ha (CCDB, 2003), this results in 4.5–12.0% of the state's lands burning annually
Ayars, Jessalyn; Kramer, H. Anu; Jones, Gavin M. (November 28, 2023). "The 2020 to 2021 California megafires and their impacts on wildlife habitat". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120 (48). doi:10.1073/pnas.2312909120. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 10691208. PMID 37983516.

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"California wildfires altering ecosystems, disrupting wildlife habitats: Study". ABC News. Retrieved November 22, 2023.

hillsforeveryone.org

A 100 Year History of Wildfires Near Chino Hills State Park (PDF) (Report). Hills For Everyone. August 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 29, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2014.

krcrtv.com

Ryan Sabalow; Phillip Reese; Dale Kasler (April 11, 2019). "Destined to Burn: California races to predict which town could be next to burn". The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on November 17, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019 – via KRCR News.

latimes.com

"Intensifying climate whiplash set the stage for devastating California fires". Los Angeles Times. January 9, 2025. Retrieved January 9, 2025.

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Rogers, Paul (August 23, 2020). "California fires: State, feds agree to thin millions of acres of forests - New plan would last 20 years, reshaping California's landscape". San Jose Mercury News. Archived from the original on September 13, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2020. Before the Gold Rush in 1849, large parts of California burned every few decades. Lightning fires burned for months, and native tribes burned the land, clearing out dead vegetation. ... Stephens, the UC fire scientist, estimates that before the Gold Rush, roughly 4.5 million acres a year in California burned. By the 1950s and 1960s, that was down to about 250,000 acres a year.

montclairoak.com

"Oakland Hills Fire". Today in Montclair, 94611. March 6, 2012. Archived from the original on December 13, 2017. Retrieved April 6, 2018.

nationalgeographic.com

BORUNDA, ALEJANDRA; ELLIOTT, KENNEDY (November 15, 2018). "See how a warmer world primed California for large fires". National Geographic. Archived from the original on December 15, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018.

nbcnews.com

"Wildfires are growing more costly". NBC News. May 14, 2014. Archived from the original on October 13, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2019.

newsweek.com

Writer, Katherine Fung Senior (January 9, 2025). "How red tape strangled California forest management before LA fires". Newsweek. Retrieved January 12, 2025.

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"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2001" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2002" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2003" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2004" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2005" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2006" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2007" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 19, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2009" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2010" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2011" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 13, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2012" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 28, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2013" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 11, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2014" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 28, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2015" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 28, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2016" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 7, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2017" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 June 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

nifc.gov

"Statistics". National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original on August 12, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2015.

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"2018 National Year-to-Date Report on Fires and Acres Burned" (PDF). NIFC. November 9, 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 30, 2018. Retrieved November 9, 2018.

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Ayars, Jessalyn; Kramer, H. Anu; Jones, Gavin M. (November 28, 2023). "The 2020 to 2021 California megafires and their impacts on wildlife habitat". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120 (48). doi:10.1073/pnas.2312909120. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 10691208. PMID 37983516.

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Ayars, Jessalyn; Kramer, H. Anu; Jones, Gavin M. (November 28, 2023). "The 2020 to 2021 California megafires and their impacts on wildlife habitat". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120 (48). doi:10.1073/pnas.2312909120. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 10691208. PMID 37983516.

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"History of Fires in the Oakland hills" (PDF). oaklandnet.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 29, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2014.

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Weil, Elizabeth (August 28, 2020). "They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won't Anybody Listen?". ProPublica. Archived from the original on September 13, 2020. Retrieved September 14, 2020.

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"Twenty-first century California, USA, wildfires: fuel-dominated vs. wind-dominated fires". ResearchGate. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
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Boxall, Bettina (January 5, 2020). "Human-caused ignitions spark California's worst wildfires but get little state focus". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved July 21, 2023.

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Stephens, Scott L.; Martin, Robert E.; Clinton, Nicholas E. (November 15, 2007). "Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands". Forest Ecology and Management. 251 (3): 210. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.06.005. ISSN 0378-1127. Archived from the original on August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2020. area burned annually in California varied from 1,814,614 to 4,838,293 ha (excluding the desert region in Southeastern California) during the prehistoric period. With the land area of California equaling 40,396,822 ha (CCDB, 2003), this results in 4.5–12.0% of the state's lands burning annually

web.archive.org

"Top 20 Most Destructive California Wildfires" (PDF). from fire.ca.gov. CalFire. January 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 22, 2025. (Supplements December 2024 version with early 2025 data)
Stephens, Scott L.; Martin, Robert E.; Clinton, Nicholas E. (November 15, 2007). "Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands". Forest Ecology and Management. 251 (3): 210. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.06.005. ISSN 0378-1127. Archived from the original on August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2020. area burned annually in California varied from 1,814,614 to 4,838,293 ha (excluding the desert region in Southeastern California) during the prehistoric period. With the land area of California equaling 40,396,822 ha (CCDB, 2003), this results in 4.5–12.0% of the state's lands burning annually
"California Wildfire Emission Estimates | California Air Resources Board". ww2.arb.ca.gov. Archived from the original on August 30, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
BORUNDA, ALEJANDRA; ELLIOTT, KENNEDY (November 15, 2018). "See how a warmer world primed California for large fires". National Geographic. Archived from the original on December 15, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
"Wildfires are growing more costly". NBC News. May 14, 2014. Archived from the original on October 13, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
Rogers, Paul (August 23, 2020). "California fires: State, feds agree to thin millions of acres of forests - New plan would last 20 years, reshaping California's landscape". San Jose Mercury News. Archived from the original on September 13, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2020. Before the Gold Rush in 1849, large parts of California burned every few decades. Lightning fires burned for months, and native tribes burned the land, clearing out dead vegetation. ... Stephens, the UC fire scientist, estimates that before the Gold Rush, roughly 4.5 million acres a year in California burned. By the 1950s and 1960s, that was down to about 250,000 acres a year.
Weil, Elizabeth (August 28, 2020). "They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won't Anybody Listen?". ProPublica. Archived from the original on September 13, 2020. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
Ryan Sabalow; Phillip Reese; Dale Kasler (April 11, 2019). "Destined to Burn: California races to predict which town could be next to burn". The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on November 17, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019 – via KRCR News.
Boxall, Bettina (January 5, 2020). "Human-caused ignitions spark California's worst wildfires but get little state focus". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved July 21, 2023.
"Statistics". National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original on August 12, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
"California Wildfires and Acres for all Jurisdictions" (PDF). CalFire. August 24, 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 28, 2022. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2001" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2002" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"2002 Large Fires" (PDF). CAL FIRE. February 11, 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 8, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2003" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"Large Fires 2003" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 25, 2018. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
"Otay Fire". CAL FIRE. October 27, 2003. Archived from the original on February 15, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2004" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"Large Fires 2004" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 25, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2005" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"Large Fires 2005" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2006" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"Large Fires 2006" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 18, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2007" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 19, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2009" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"Large Fires 2009" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 5, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2010" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2011" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 13, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"Large Fires 2011" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 24, 2016. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2012" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 28, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2013" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 11, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
Ken Pimlott; John Laird; Edmond G. Brown Jr. (September 3, 2014). "2013 Wildfire Statistics" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 30, 2016. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2014" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 28, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
Ken Pimlott (2015). "2014 Wildfire Activity Statistics" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 30, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2015" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 28, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2016" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 7, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
Ken Pimlott (2017). "2016 Wildfire Activity Statistics" (PDF). CAL FIRE. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 12, 2018. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
"2017 Incident Archive". 2019. Archived from the original on September 4, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
"National Report of Wildland Fires and Acres Burned by State 2017" (PDF). National Interagency Fire Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 June 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
"2018 Incident Archive". CAL FIRE. 2020. Archived from the original on September 5, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
"2018 National Year-to-Date Report on Fires and Acres Burned" (PDF). NIFC. November 9, 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 30, 2018. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
"2019 Incident Archive". fire.ca.gov. Archived from the original on September 10, 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
"2020 Incident Archive". CAL FIRE. Archived from the original on June 28, 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
"2021 Incident Archive". CAL FIRE. Archived from the original on January 15, 2022. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
"2022 Incident Archive". CAL FIRE. Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
"Oakland Hills Fire". Today in Montclair, 94611. March 6, 2012. Archived from the original on December 13, 2017. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
"History of Fires in the Oakland hills" (PDF). oaklandnet.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 29, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
A 100 Year History of Wildfires Near Chino Hills State Park (PDF) (Report). Hills For Everyone. August 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 29, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2014.

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Stephens, Scott L.; Martin, Robert E.; Clinton, Nicholas E. (November 15, 2007). "Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands". Forest Ecology and Management. 251 (3): 210. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.06.005. ISSN 0378-1127. Archived from the original on August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2020. area burned annually in California varied from 1,814,614 to 4,838,293 ha (excluding the desert region in Southeastern California) during the prehistoric period. With the land area of California equaling 40,396,822 ha (CCDB, 2003), this results in 4.5–12.0% of the state's lands burning annually
Ayars, Jessalyn; Kramer, H. Anu; Jones, Gavin M. (November 28, 2023). "The 2020 to 2021 California megafires and their impacts on wildlife habitat". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120 (48). doi:10.1073/pnas.2312909120. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 10691208. PMID 37983516.