Some fires may be missing because historical records were lost or damaged, were too small for the minimum cutoffs, had inadequate documentation or have not yet been incorporated into the database. This means that the causes shown for some fires may be out of date.
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Cal Fire enters the cause of each year’s fires when this data is captured annually and does not update them if investigations are later completed or determinations are changed. Fire causesĪlso displayed here are the reported cause and acres of each fire shown.
These fires are also categorized by the meteorological season in which they started, which are as follows: Winter (December - February), Spring (March - May), Summer (June - August) and Fall (September - November). 2020 is also shown separately because there has been only one recorded fire year so far in the 2020s decade in this dataset. Fires that started between 18 are shown separately here due to more inconsistencies in data for earlier fires. 77 fires that did not include a year in the data have been left out. These wildfires are categorized by the decade or time period in which they started. This map and data is not intended to be used for legal purposes or statistical analysis. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. This map shows the perimeters of more than 20,000 wildfires that have been recorded in California from 1878 to 2020 using data from Cal Fire, the National Parks Service, the U.S.
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