2010 California wildfires
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The 2010 California wildfires are a series of seasonal wildfire
s active in the state of California
, USA, during the year 2010.
Wildfire
A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, squirrel fire, vegetation fire, veldfire, and wilkjjofire may be used to describe the same...
s active in the state of California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, USA, during the year 2010.
Kern County
- Bull Fire: Burned 16460 acres (66.6 km²) southeast of Tehachapi, CaliforniaTehachapi, CaliforniaTehachapi is a city incorporated in 1909 located in the Tehachapi Mountains between Bakersfield and Mojave in Kern County, California. Tehachapi is located east-southeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of...
in July, destroyed eight homes and six outbuildings as of 31 July 2010. - West Fire: burned more than 1200 acres (4.9 km²) north of Tehachapi in the Sequoia National ForestSequoia National ForestSequoia National Forest is located in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The U.S. National Forest is named for the majestic Giant Sequoia trees which populate 38 distinct groves within the boundaries of the forest....
in July, destroyed 30 structures, mostly homes.
Los Angeles County
- Crown Fire: 14000 acres (56.7 km²) burned, 2000 homes evacuated as of 31 July 2010.
See also
- 2009 California wildfires2009 California wildfiresThe 2009 California wildfires were a series of 63 wildfires that were active in the state of California, USA, during the year 2009. The fires burned more than of land from the beginning of July through late November due to red flag warnings, destroying hundreds of structures and killing two people...
- November 2008 California wildfiresNovember 2008 California wildfiresThe November 2008 California wildfires are a series of wildfires that began burning across Southern California on November 13. At least 400 houses and 500 mobile homes were destroyed...
- Summer 2008 California wildfiresSummer 2008 California wildfiresThe summer 2008 California wildfires, collectively dubbed the Northern California Lightning Series by CAL FIRE, were a concentrated outbreak of wildfires during the summer of 2008. Over 2,780 individual fires were burning at the height of the period, burning large portions of forests and chaparral...
- October 2007 California wildfiresOctober 2007 California wildfiresThe October 2007 California wildfires were a series of wildfires that began burning across Southern California on October 20. At least 1,500 homes were destroyed and over 500,000 acres of land burned from Santa Barbara County to the U.S.–Mexico border...
- Old Fire (2003)
- Cedar FireCedar FireThe Cedar Fire was a human-caused wildfire that burned out of control through a large area of San Diego County, in Southern California, in October 2003...
External links
- Current Fire Information. CAL FIRE (California Department of Forestry and Fire ProtectionCalifornia Department of Forestry and Fire ProtectionThe California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is the State of California's agency responsible for fire protection in State Responsibility Areas of California as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests. It is often referred to as The California Department of...
) - Current wildfire incidents from InciWebInciWebInciWeb is an interagency all-risk incident web information management system provided by the United States Forest Service released in 2004. It was originally developed for wildland fire emergencies, but can be also used for other emergency incidents .-Introduction:It was developed with two primary...
, United States Forest ServiceUnited States Forest ServiceThe United States Forest Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass...