California State has had over half of its deadliest, most destructive, and largest top-20 wildfires in the last 4 years alone, since the August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse.
I live in the Intermountain West and have had first-hand experience with the smoke from the fires, with my location sometimes being said to have the worst air quality on the planet as a result of the fires burning along the West Coast.
California is known to have disastrous policies and an extremely wicked culture in many parts of the state. Many people have fled California for various reasons, not the least of which is to live by people who share their moral values.
But, it isn’t lost on me that the smoke coming from California and Oregon and Washington are symbolic of something else. When people flee California for economic reasons alone and don’t leave behind the culture to burn to ash with the brush, they bring a toxic blend of errant values and infect their new location with them, just like the smoke carried in the wind.
While sciency reasons as to the cause of many disasters around us abound, let us recognize God’s hand. He wants us to repent as individuals, as communities, as nations. This is the land of the free, but our freedoms are vanishing. What we value is liberty, which comes of the right use of freedom. May God preserve liberty to the righteous, but I trust the “fires” of calamity will burn hot until the people repent.
Deadliest Wildfires in CA History
CAMP FIRE
Started: 2018
Deaths: 85
Top 20 Rank: 1
TUBBS FIRE
Started: 2017
Deaths: 22
Top 20 Rank: 4
NORTH COMPLEX FIRE
Started: 2020
Deaths: 15
Top 20 Rank: 5
REDWOOD VALLEY FIRE
Started: 2017
Deaths: 9
Top 20 Rank: 12
CARR FIRE
Started: 2018
Deaths: 8
Top 20 Rank: 15
LNU LIGHTNING COMPLEX FIRE
Started: 2020
Deaths: 6
Top 20 Rank: 16
ATLAS FIRE
Started: 2017
Deaths: 6
Top 20 Rank: 17
7 of the top-20 deadliest wildfires in California history have happened in the last 4 years, since the August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse.
Most Destructive Wildfires in CA History
CAMP FIRE
Started: 2018
Structures Destroyed: 18,804
Top 20 Rank: 1
TUBBS FIRE
Started: 2017
Structures Destroyed: 5636
Top 20 Rank: 2
NORTH COMPLEX FIRE
Started: 2020
Structures Destroyed: 2,352
Top 20 Rank: 5
WOOLSEY FIRE
Started: 2018
Structures Destroyed: 1,643
Top 20 Rank: 8
CARR FIRE
Started: 2018
Structures Destroyed: 1,614
Top 20 Rank: 9
GLASS FIRE
Started: 2020
Structures Destroyed: 1,520
Top 20 Rank: 10
LNU LIGHTNING COMPLEX FIRE
Started: 2020
Structures Destroyed: 1,491
Top 20 Rank: 11
CZU LIGHTNING COMPLEX FIRE
Started: 2020
Structures Destroyed: 1,490
Top 20 Rank: 12
NUNS FIRE
Started: 2017
Structures Destroyed: 1,355
Top 20 Rank: 13
DIXIE FIRE
Started: 2017
Structures Destroyed: 1,273 (as of 8/25/2021)
Top 20 Rank: 14
THOMAS FIRE
Started: 2017
Structures Destroyed: 1,063
Top 20 Rank: 15
CALDOR FIRE
Started: 2021
Structures Destroyed: 998
Top 20 Rank: 17
AUGUST COMPLEX FIRE
Started: 2020
Structures Destroyed: 935
Top 20 Rank: 19
13 of the top-20 most destructive wildfires in California history have happened in the last 4 years, since the August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse.
Largest Wildfires in CA History
AUGUST COMPLEX FIRE
Started: 2020
Acres Burned: 1,032,649
Top 20 Rank: 1
DIXIE FIRE
Started: 2021
Acres Burned: 724,110 (as of 8/25/2021)
Top 20 Rank: 2
MENDOCINO COMPLEX FIRE
Started: 2018
Acres Burned: 459,123
Top 20 Rank: 3
SCU LIGHTNING COMPLEX FIRE
Started: 2020
Acres Burned: 396,624
Top 20 Rank: 4
CREEK FIRE
Started: 2020
Acres Burned: 379,895
Top 20 Rank: 5
LNU LIGHTNING COMPLEX FIRE
Started: 2020
Acres Burned: 363,220
Top 20 Rank: 6
NORTH COMPLEX FIRE
Started: 2020
Acres Burned: 318,935
Top 20 Rank: 7
THOMAS FIRE
Started: 2017
Acres Burned: 281,893
Top 20 Rank: 8
CARR FIRE
Started: 2018
Acres Burned: 229,651
Top 20 Rank: 13
MONUMENT FIRE
Started: 2021
Acres Burned: 223,001
Top 20 Rank: 15
CALDOR FIRE
Started: 2021
Acres Burned: 221,774
Top 20 Rank: 16
RIVER COMPLEX
Started: 2021
Acres Burned: 198,555
Top 20 Rank: 18
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