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The most telltale number is 4.2 million.
Thatâs the stop-in-your-tracks figure â the total acreage burned â from last yearâs fire siege, the worst year in Californiaâs long history of wildfires.
2020 was a fire year of unforgettable and awful superlatives. In the new world of mega-fires, a series of wildfires exploded late in August with a barrage of lightning and fires that blazed for four months.Â
The 4.2 million acres burned last year is equivalent to the entire area of Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties combined.
The stateâs first giga-fire â the August Complex â alone consumed one million acres in the northern Coast Range.Â