21st Century Major Wildfires in California

Fires where over a million acres are burned. Wilfdfires happen every year, there are 100,000 in the USA annualy.


"Causes Lack of common sense forest managment has lengthened the fire season and made it more extreme from the middle of the 20th century.[4][5] Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California are growing more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by Pacific Gas and Electric.[6][7][8] United States taxpayers pay about US$3 billion a year to fight wildfires, and big fires can lead to billions of dollars in property losses.[9] At times, these wildfires are fanned or made worse by strong, dry winds, known as Diablo winds when they occur in the northern part of the state and Santa Ana winds when they occur in the south. However, from a historical perspective, it has been estimated that prior to 1850, about 4.5 million acres (17,000 km2) burned yearly, in fires that lasted for months, with wildfire activity peaking roughly every 30 years, when up to 11.8 million acres (47,753 km3) of land burned.[10][11] The much larger wildfire seasons in the past can be attributed to the policy of Native Californians regularly setting controlled burns and allowing natural fires to run their course, which prevented devastating wildfires from overrunning the state.[10]"
- Wikipedia

1,020,460 Acres

1,520,362 Acres

1,593,690 Acres

1,548,429 Acres

1,975,086 Acres

2019
  PG&E to cut power to 800,000 customers across California after midnight Wednesday
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259,823 Acres

If you're a company and cause these fires, you'll pay for it. If it's the government, they just spend more money telling poeple global warkming is causing more wildfires and we need to study it more, so we still get all the EPA budget for our friends climate research and advocasy companies.


4,397,809 Acres

2,568,948 Acres

1,050,012 Acres

2025
521,988 ytd oct

Even with the Palisades fire, (now found to be set by an arsonist) the amount or burned aceridge is abioyut a third of what it wads last year.
"As of the combined 2025 Year-to-Date (YTD) data from Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service, 521,988 acres have burned in California due to wildfires. This total includes 7,340 wildfires that have occurred across the state so far this year.
Key Statistics for 2025 (YTD):
Total Acres Burned: 521,988
Total Fires: 7,340
Comparison to Average:
The 5-Year Average for the same period is 1,245,351 acres, indicating that the current year's total is lower than the average for the same interval.
Note: The data provided is from the combined YTD statistics for 2025 and includes data from both Cal Fire (.gov) and the U.S. Forest Service. For real-time updates, please check the official Cal Fire website.