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2018 Incident Archive

Incidents
483,016
Total Emergency Responses 		7,948
Wildfires 		1,975,086
Acres Burned 		100
Confirmed Loss of Life 		24,226
Structures Destroyed
The 2018 wildfire season was the deadliest and one of the most destructive wildfire season on record in California, with a total of 86 deaths, over 7,500 fires burning an area of over 1,670,000 acres. In mid-July to August 2018, a series of large wildfires erupted across California, mostly in the northern part of the state, including the destructive Carr Fire and the Mendocino Complex Fire. On August 4, 2018, a national disaster was declared in Northern California, due to the extensive wildfires burning there. In November 2018, strong winds aggravated conditions in another round of large, destructive fires that occurred across the state. This new batch of wildfires included the Woolsey Fire and the Camp Fire, which killed at least 85 people. It destroyed more than 18,000 structures, becoming both California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire on record. The Mendocino Complex Fire burned more than 459,000 acres, becoming the largest complex fire in the state's history, with the complex's Ranch Fire surpassing the Thomas Fire and the Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 to become California's single-largest recorded wildfire.
2018 Incident Archive | CalFire

3 Largest Fires
Name County Acres Cause Start date Structures
Destroyed 		Deaths Notes
Camp Butte 153,336 Power Lines Nov 2018 18,804 86 The deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's history
Mendocino Complex Ranch fire Mendocino, Lake,
Colusa, Glenn		 459,123 Under investigation July 2018 280 1 The fire complex burned for 5 months.
The Ranch Fire by itself,was 410,203 acres
Carr shasta, Trinity 229,651 Human Related July 2018 1604 8
Mendocino Complex Fire
Camp Fire

2018 Fires



Smoke from Camp FIre