5 of the 6 largest California wildfires in history started in the past 6 weeks

sacbee ^ | 9/22/20 | Michael McGough

[Roman_War_Criminal]

The staggering statistics keep piling up for California’s wildfire season: August and September account for five of the six biggest fires in nearly 90 years of recorded history for the state.

The destructive Creek Fire that continues to burn in Fresno County grew about 3,000 acres between Monday and Tuesday for a new total of 283,724 acres, leapfrogging the 2017 Thomas Fire for the No. 6 spot, according to Cal Fire records. It is 30% contained.

Ahead of the Creek Fire, which started Sept. 4, are four massive wildfire complexes that sparked during a freak mid-August thunderstorm. The storm pummeled Northern California and the Bay Area with thousands of lightning strikes, igniting dozens of large fires and hundreds of smaller ones. Then, gusty winds within the next few weeks caused some of the larger incidents to swell or erupt in size.

The 2018 Mendocino Complex had previously been the state’s largest fire on record, reaching 459,123 acres. Until 2020, it was the only wildfire to eclipse 300,000 acres, dating back to the start of reliable record keeping in 1932.

[treetopsandroofs]

Rats have said to burn it all down.

[luvbach1]

BLM = Burn Lots More

[DuncanWaring]

The fires in northern Idaho/western Montana in August 1910 burned 3.5 million acres in 36 hours (3 million of the 3.5 million in one hellish six hour period).

[preacher]

L8r

[avital2]

and yet Texas doesn’t burn. 2 + 2 =

[george76]

Bill Clinton’s land management rules and other liberal policies paved the way for future debilitating wildfires..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3883830/posts

[hal ogen]

I guess when you have green LIB nitwits in charge of the forests...they don’t have a clue how to appropriately manage them so as to avoid such fires. Oafs. Most are government “workers”...the class of Citizen who are less than stellar in their competence.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Rats have said to burn it all down.”

Yep. So what is the big deal if it IS all burning down?

[Gay State Conservative]

And nine of the ten biggest wildfires in Kalifornia’s history were started by arsonists.

[Chode]

so to save the spotted owl, they sacrificed 100MM animals... wonderful

[Pontiac]

https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/policy-and-law/fire-u-s-forest-service/famous-fires/the-1910-fires/

[GOP Poet]

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[Robert DeLong]

Texas doesn't have forest for there to be forest fires. 8>)

But I'm sure Texas will start burning soon when President Trump wins reelection.

[tomkat]

5 of the 6 largest California wildfires in history were deliberately started in the past 6 weeks

/.02

[Texas resident]

East Texas is all forest. We don’t have fires like California because privately owned or state owned is well taken care of.

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah they have a swath:

East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland

But what you say is true also. 8>)

[kickstart]

90 years of recorded history is one minute of the weather history since the last ice age. And before the last ice age, I am sure the weather had more extremes than can be imagined!

[avital2]

38 per cent of Texas is forested. Texas forest lands can be divided into six major regions: the Big Thicket, the Piney Woods, the Gulf Coast, the Edwards Plateau, the lower Rio Grande Valley, and the Trans-Pecos mountain forests.[4][5] East Texas is home to the Piney Woods, a vast region extending from Texas through parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. These woodlands feature many varieties of pine as well as hardwood varieties including magnolia, American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), and elms (Ulmus spp.).[6] The Big Thicket is the southern portion of this region, and has historically been the most densely wooded part of the state, acting as a natural divide between Southeast Texas and coastal Louisiana. The Texas coastal region has more sparse tree growth but still contains many varieties including Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana), mesquite (Prosopis spp.), and Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana).[7] The Edwards Plateau region of Central Texas contains woodlands featuring Ashe Juniper (Juniperus ashei), Texas Live Oak (Quercus fusiformis), and Honey Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa).[8] The lower Rio Grande Valley has historically been home to a large semitropical forest of Mexican Palmetto (Sabal mexicana).[9] Though West Texas is mostly grasslands and desert, mountainous areas in the Trans-Pecos portion, such as the Guadalupe Mountains, contain oases of forest lands featuring Bigtooth Maple (Acer grandidentatum), Velvet Ash (Fraxinus velutina), Grey Oak (Quercus grisea), and similar tree species.[10]

Additional pockets of forest lands include the Cross Timbers areas of North Texas in the vicinity of the Dallas – Fort Worth metroplex, as well as areas throughout the savanna and blackland prairies that lie to the west of the Piney Woods and the coastal areas. For its part the Cross Timbers region, which straddles Texas and Oklahoma, though relatively narrow, was once dense enough to have been considered a natural barrier.[11] Though these woodland areas have never been a major source of lumber they have nevertheless provided firewood as well as wood for poles, railroad construction and other limited uses.[12] Patches of original oak and woodland remain in the ranchlands of eastern Texas, west of the Piney Woods, and these have been described as the East Central Texas forests ecoregion.

[Robert DeLong]

Guess I have seen more of the other 62% of Texas. But I’ll take your word on the subject. 8>)