List of California wildfires
Appearance
California will annually on seasonal basis, suffer from dry and abnormally windy or hot weather conditions from late Spring through Autumn. And at times are fanned or made worse from the strong blowing Northern Diablo wind and Southern Santa Ana Winds. The following list is of the wildfires in California.
Pre-1900
- Ortega Hill Fire (1888)
- Sycamore Fire (1888)
- Santiago Canyon Fire (1889)
1920s
- Berkeley Fire (1923)
1930s
- Matilija Canyon Fire (1932)
- Griffith Park Fire (1933)
1940s
- San Marcos Pass Fire (1940)
- Hauser Creek Fire (1943)
- Green River Fire (1948)
1950s
- Rattlesnake Fire (1953)
- Refugio Road Fire (1955)
- Inaja Fire (1956)
- Steward Fire (1958)
- Decker Fire (1959)
- Talega Fire (1959)
1960s
- Coyote Canyon Fire (1964)
- Hanley-Nuns Canyon Fire (1964)
- Wellman Canyon Fire (1966)
- Loop Fire (1966)
- Paseo Grande Fire (1967)
- Canyon Inn Fire (1968)
1970s
- Laguna Fire (1970)
- Romero Canyon Fire (1971)
- San Clemente Fire (1976)
- Sycamore Canyon Fire (1977)
- Hondo Canyon Fire (1977)
- Honda Canyon Fire (Vandenberg AFB) (1977)
- Eagle Canyon Fire (1979)
1980s
- Panorama Fire (1980)
- Indian Fire (1980)
- Gypsum Canyon Fire (1982)
- Mount Baldy Fire (1984)
- Wheeler Fire (1985)
- Normal Heights Fire (1985)
- Silverado Canyon Fire (1987)
- Pebble Beach Fire (1987)
- Lauder Fire (1987)
- Northern California Fire Siege (1987)
1990s
- Carbon Canyon Fire (1990)
- Yorba Fire (1990)
- Chino Hills Fire (1990)
- Painted Cave Fire (1990)
- Oakland Hills firestorm (1991)
- Marre Fire (1993)
- Laguna Beach Fire (1993)
- Ortega Fire (1993)
- Mount Vision fire (1995)
- Baker Canyon Fire (1997)
- Santa Anita II Fire (1999)
- Megram Fire (1999)
2000s
- Blue Cut Fire (2002)
- Louisiana Fire (2002)
- McNally Fire (2002)
- Lytle Fire (2002)
- Curve Fire (2002)
- Williams Fire (2002)
- Old Fire (2003)
- Cedar Fire (2003)
- September 2005 California wildfires
- Esperanza Fire (2006)
- Angora Fire (2007)
- Zaca Fire (2007)
- October 2007 California wildfires
- November 2007 California wildfire
- Summer 2008 California wildfires
- November 2008 California wildfires
- August 2009 California wildfires
2010s
- Bull Fire (2010)
- West Fire (2010)
- Crown Fire (2010)
- Briggs Fire (2010)
- Sheep Canyon Fire (2010)
- Slope Fire (2010)
- Vernon Fire (2010)
- Buckhorn Canyon Fire (2010)
- Metnez Fire (2010)
- Pedley Fire (2010)
- McKinley Fire (2010)
- Stuhr Fire (2010)
- Robinson Fire (2010)
- Bale Fire (2010)
- Whites Fire (2010)
- Diablo Canyon Fire (2010)
- Childs Fire (2010)
- Palermo Fire (2010)
- Skinner Fire (2010)
- Cactus Fire (2010)
- Cove Fire (2011)
- Cougar Fire (2011)
- Ikea Fire (2011)
- Antelope Fire (2011)
- Quinn Fire (2011)
- Carbon Canyon Fire (2011)
- Lion Fire (2011)
- Scorpion Complex Fire (2011)
- Avalanche Fire (2011)
- Annie Fire (2011)
- Onion Fire (2011)
- Ken Fire (2011)
- Motor Fire (2011)
- Oasis Fire (2011)
- Wells Fire (2011)
- Figueroa Fire (2011)
- Canyon Fire (2011)
- Willows Fire (2011)
- Wagon Wheel Fire (2011)
- Keene Complex Fire (2011)
- Comanche Complex Fire (2011)
- Breckenridge Complex Fire (2011)
- Long Fire (2011)
- Tamarack Fire (2011)
- Burst Complex Fire (2011)
- Mint Fire (2011)
- Old Fire (2011)
- 65 Fire (2011)
- Ruth Fire (2011)
- Windy Point Fire (2011)
- Buckeye Fire (2011)
- Wind Complex Fire (2011)
- Bagley Fire (2012)
- Fort Complex Fire (2012)
- Jawbone Complex Fire (2012)
- Ponderosa Fire (2012)
- Wye fire (2012)
- Banner Fire (2012)
- George Fire (2012)
- Lost fire (2012)
- Reading Fire (2012)
- Buck Fire (2012)
- Highland Fire (2012)
- Mill Fire (2012)
- Rush Fire (2012)
- Chips Fire (2012)
- Indian Fire (2012)
- Pass Fire (2012)
- Vallecito Complex Fire (2012)
- Springs Wildfire (2013)
References
- ^ Lopez, Robert J. "California wildfires: Springs fire reaches PCH in Ventura County". latimes.com. Retrieved 2013-05-04.
External links
- http://www.fire.ca.gov
- http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents details info?incidents.
- http://www.rvcfire.org/opencms/index.html.
- http://calfire.blogspot.com/2012/07/2-lodds-remembered-july-13-1984-baldy.html.
- http://www2.ocregister.com/mutimedia/historic_fires/.
- http://www.iawfonline.org/pdf/Infamous_World_Fires.pdf.