While the 2014 wildfire season has been active in California, the fires have not been particularly large or damaging.
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Wildfires have charred more than 6 million acres in the United States.
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Several large wildfires have charred tens of thousands of acres in northern California.
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Wildfires burned near Lassen Volcanic National Park in mid-August 2012.
Hot, dry weather and fierce easterlies fanned the flames of several blazes, endangering homes and lives.
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Satellite data is helping scientists size up one of the most intense outbreaks of fire and smoke that Oregon and California have seen in decades.
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By early September 2020, more than a quarter million acres had burned within the August Complex fire in Mendocino National Forest.
Thick smoke from the blaze blanketed Santa Barbara.
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One of the largest and most destructive fires raging across California over the weekend of July 4 was the Basin Fire, threatening Big Sur, and covering the coast in a thick blanket of smoke.
Fires burn night and day across Washington, Idaho, and Oregon.
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