2017 (as of October 16, these numbers will change as news reports surface) In California State wide At least 42 dead, 5,700 structures lost in Northern California firestorm, among worst in state's history and at the time of this post, the fire is still raging out of control. These California fires have been identified as unprecedented. By far, the worst of these fires has been called the Santa Rosa Fires or the Napa Valley Fires as the fires have spread from the Hills of Napa Valley to the neighborhoods of Santa Rosa. Notice from the pictures below that entire neighborhoods have gone up in smoke! Nothing in its path has been spared. Pictures by LA Times credited to: reporter(s) listed: Laura J Nelson, Sonali Kohli, Paige St.John, Dakota Smith, Nina Agrawal & Marcus Yam. This fire is reported to require the assistance of some 11,000 fire-workers and as of today is still raging with more updates to come.
California Fires location by map as of Friday October 13, 2017
Lobo Nevada 880 October 9, 2017 20% contained At least 30 structures destroyed
McCourtney Nevada 72 October 9, 2017 60% contained
La Porte Butte 3,500 October 9, 2017 10% contained
Cascade Yuba 11,500 October 9, 2017 15% contained 1 fatality
Sulphur Lake 2,500 October 9, 2017 10% contained
Point Calaveras 130 October 9, 2017 50% contained 4 structures destroyed
Canyon 2 Orange 7,500 October 9, 2017 25% contained 24 structures destroyed
37 Sonoma 2,000 October 9, 2017 40% contained
Cherokee Butte 7,500 October 8, 2017 40% contained
Atlas Napa 25,000 October 8, 2017 0% contained 2 fatalities, 125 structures destroyed
Tubbs Napa 27,000 October 8, 2017 0% contained 571 structures destroyed
Nuns Sonoma 5,000 October 8, 2017 0% contained
Partrick Napa 1,000 October 8, 2017 0% contained
Redwood Complex Mendocino 21,000 October 8, 2017 0% contained 1 fatality
Here is a link to the LA Times story: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fires-20171013-story.html
Sonoma County California - Update at least 15 dead, 183 people are still listed as missing. In Northern California wine country, officials say at least 2,000 homes and commercial buildings have been destroyed, and 20,000 people have been evacuated. This has been called a raging inferno.
Anaheim, Santa Rosa & Napa Valley California. There are a reported 9 major fires raging in California today. One fire's name is the Atlas Fire. The 2017 California wildfires are a series of wildfires that are burning across the state of California during October 2017. During 2017, a total of 7,484 fires have burned 771,765 acres (3,123.22 km2), according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. In the extreme conditions, shortly after the fires ignited, they rapidly grew to become massive conflagrations spanning from 1,000 to well over 20,000 acres apart within a single day.
For a complete list of fires, I found this in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires
2017 Montana List of fires - Major fires of 2017 that consumed over 1,000 acres (400 ha) include the following (as of September 13 thru October 2017):
Over 100,000 acres (40,000 ha)
Lodgepole Complex Fire, public and private land 52 miles WNW of Jordan, 270,723 acres (109,558 ha)
Rice Ridge Fire, Lolo National Forest, near Seeley Lake, Montana, 160,183 acres (64,824 ha)
Over 50,000 acres (20,000 ha)
Meyers Fire, Beaverhead National Forest/Deerlodge National Forest, 62,034 acres (25,104 ha)
Lolo Peak Fire, Lolo National Forest, 53,902 acres (21,813 ha)
At an interagency and departmental briefing on Montana fires: (from left) U.S. Congressman Greg Gianforte, U.S. Senator Steve Daines, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke.
Over 20,000 acres (8,100 ha)
Sapphire Complex Fire, Lolo National Forest, 43,733 acres (17,698 ha)
Little Hogback Fire, Lolo National Forest, 29,654 acres (12,001 ha)
Alice Creek Fire, Helena National Forest – Lewis and Clark National Forest, 29,252 acres (11,838 ha)
Tongue River Complex Fire, Custer National Forest/Gallatin National Forest, 28,957 acres (11,718 ha)
Liberty Fire, Flathead Indian Reservation, 28,689 acres (11,610 ha)
Sunrise Fire, Lolo National Forest, 26,310 acres (10,650 ha)
Highway 200 Complex Fire, Lolo National Forest/Kootenai National Forest, near Plains and Thompson Falls, Montana 48,417 acres (19,594 ha)
Caribou Fire, near Eureka, Montana, Kootenai National Forest, 24,753 acres (10,017 ha)
East Fork Fire, state land in Bears Paw Mountains, south of Havre, Montana, 21,896 acres (8,861 ha)
Strawberry Fire, near Dupuyer, Montana, Flathead National Forest, 20,894 acres (8,456 ha)
Scalp Fire, Flathead National Forest, 20,810 acres (8,420 ha)
West Fork Fire, Kootenai National Forest, 20,072 acres (8,123 ha)
Over 10,000 acres (4,000 ha)
The historic Sperry Chalet was nearly destroyed by the Sprague FirePark Creek Fire, Helena National Forest/Lewis and Clark National Forest, 18,000 acres (7,300 ha)
Sprague Fire, Glacier National Park, 16,790 acres (6,790 ha)
Moose Peak Fire, Kootenai National Forest, 13,903 acres (5,626 ha)
Gibralter Ridge Fire, Kootenai National Forest, 12,938 acres (5,236 ha)
July Fire, public and private land near Zortman, 11,699 acres (4,734 ha)
Whetstone Ridge Fire, Beaverhead National Forest/Deerlodge National Forest, 11,593 acres (4,692 ha)
Reef Fire, Bob Marshall Wilderness, Flathead National Forest, 10,658 acres (4,313 ha)
Crucifixion Creek Fire, near Heart Butte, Montana, in the Badger-Two Medicine area, Helena National Forest/Lewis and Clark National Forest, 11,008 acres (4,455 ha)
Over 1,000 acres (400 ha)
Goat Creek Fire, Lolo National Forest, 8,323 acres (3,368 ha)
Crying Fire, public and private land 50 miles north of Winnett, 7,295 acres (2,952 ha)
Blacktail Fire, Lewis and Clark National Forest, 5,351 acres (2,165 ha)
Green Ridge Complex Fire, Bitterroot National Forest, 4,769 acres (1,930 ha)
Weasel Fire, Kootenai National Forest, 3,925 acres (1,588 ha)
Monahan Fire, Lolo National Forest, 3,613 acres (1,462 ha)
Blue Ridge Complex Fire, public and private land 39 miles NW of Jordan, 3,034 acres (1,228 ha)
Buffalo Fire, public and private land 31 miles SW of Broadus, 3,020 acres (1,220 ha)
Adair Peak Fire, Glacier National Park, 4,034 acres (1,633 ha)
Conrow Fire, Beaverhead National Forest/Deerlodge National Forest, 2,741 acres (1,109 ha)
Yooper Fire, SW Rural Culbertson/Richland County area, private and public land, 7,816 acres (3,163 ha)
Smoke from some of these fires in Montana could be seen from space:
1918 Cloquet Fire, Minnesota United States October 12, 1918 death toll 453
1871 Peshtigo Fire, Wisconsin United States October 8, 1871 death toll est. 2,000
1825 Miramichi Fire Canada death toll 160
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