second largest to ever scorch parts of california. i didn t know where i was, whose house is what. it was just a wasteland. we re just grateful to be alive. we got each other. reporter: the 2021 hurricane season, while not as prolific as the record-shattering 2020, was still an overachiever. there were 21 named storms, including seven hurricanes, four of which were category 3 or higher. category 4 hurricane ida lashing louisiana, still recovering from last year s four landfalls. we are looking at imminent landfall of this storm. reporter: the deadly hurricane flattening entire communities, leaving millions of people in louisiana without power. some outages lasting for months. ida then slashed a path of destruction into the northeast, dumping up to 10 inches of rain in some parts of the region. several areas seeing one night all-time record high totals for the month of september.
and seattle dieing of soaring temperatures. the electricity went off and it is getting warmer and warmer. 2021 will go down in history as the hottest summer on record for the united states. fires in the west burning for months, the bootleg fire the biggest this year burning more than 14,000 acres. i didn t know where i was, whose house is whose. we re just grateful to be alive. the 2021 hurricane season while not as prolific as the record shattering 2020 was still active. four storms were category three or higher. category four hurricane ida
burning more than 413,000 acres. the dixie fire becoming the second largest to ever scorch parts of california. i didn t know where i was, whose house was what. it was just a wasteland. we re just grateful to be alive. we ve got each other. reporter: the 2021 hurricane season not as prolific at 2020 was still an over achiever. there were 21 named storms including seven hurricanes, four of which were category three or higher. category four hurricane ida lashing louisiana, still recovering from last year s four landfalls. we re looking at imminent landfall of this storm. the deadly hurricane flattening entire communities, leaving millions of people in louisiana without power. some outages lasting for months. ida then slashed a path of destruction into the northeast. dumping up to 10 inches of rain in some parts of the region. several areas seen one night