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California’s 2020 fire siege: Wildfires by the numbers JULIE CART The most telltale number is 4.2 million. That’s the stop-in-your-tracks figure the total acreage burned from last year’s fire siege, the worst year in California’s 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.  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 state’s first giga-fire the August Complex  alone consumed one million acres in the northern Coast Range. 

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