In July 2021, the Dixie Fire ignited, eventually burning more than 963,000 acres in Northern California before it was fully contained in October. In the end, it was the largest single source wildfire ...
CalFire says the Dixie Fire has surpassed the 2018’s Mendocino Complex fire that burned 459,123 acres, and 2020’s SCU Lightning Complex fire that spread across 396,624 acres. The only larger fire in ...
With PG&E’s announcement earlier this week that one of its power lines is under investigation as the cause of yet another destructive Northern California wildfire, attention has focused on the company ...
A severe heat wave is also headed toward some of the most impacted regions. The dangerous wildfires burning in the West is affecting air quality in cities more than 1,000 miles away as the smoke ...
Pacific Gas & Electric transmission lines ignited the Dixie Fire in Northern California, which burned nearly 1 million acres and destroyed more than 1,300 homes last summer, according to a new state ...
In 2019 and again in 2021, Penn State researchers in the Department of Geography walked a series of 1,000 square foot plots in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. The goal was to see how the ...