| Top 10 Most Destructive California Wildfires (1) |
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| Rank |
Fire name and cause |
Date |
County |
Acres |
Structures |
Deaths |
| 1 |
Camp Fire (Power lines) |
November 2018 |
Butte |
153,336 |
18,804 |
85 |
| 2 |
Tubbs (Electrical) |
October 2017 |
Napa and Sonoma |
36,807 |
5,636 |
22 |
| 3 |
Tunnel (Rekindle) |
October 1991 |
Alameda |
1,600 |
2,900 |
25 |
| 4 |
Cedar (Human related) |
October 2003 |
San Diego |
273,246 |
2,820 |
15 |
| 5 |
Valley (Electrical) |
September 2015 |
Lake, Napa and Sonoma |
76,067 |
1,955 |
4 |
| 6 |
Witch (Power lines) |
October 2007 |
San Diego |
197,990 |
1,650 |
2 |
| 7 |
Woolsey (Unde investigation) |
November 2018 |
Ventura |
96,949 |
1,643 |
3 |
| 8 |
Carr (Human related) |
July 2018 |
Shasta County, Trinity County |
229,651 |
1,614 |
8 |
| 9 |
Nuns (Power lines) |
October 2017 |
Sonoma |
54,382 |
1,355 |
3 |
| 10 |
Thomas (Power lines) |
December 2017 |
Ventura and Santa Barbara |
281,893 |
1,063 |
2 |
(1) As of August 8, 2019.
Source: CalFire.
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