The Old Fire raged through the San Bernardino Mountains 10 years ago, in October of 2003, carving out a dubious place in history as the most devastating fire ever to strike the area. As huge as ...

California Wildfires Wildfires continue to burn across southern California, consuming hundreds of homes, ... October 27, 2003 12:00 AM ET. Heard on Talk of the Nation.

In October 2003, Southern California was ravaged by wildfires fueled by Santa Ana winds. From Oct. 21 to Nov. 4, there were 14 major fires burning from as far north as Santa Barbara County to as ...

The 2003 Cedar Fire scorched more than 437 square miles, nearly 3,000 buildings - including more than 2,000 homes - and killed 15 people before being contained.

California Department of Forestry firefighter Lou Sciocchehi from Fort Bragg watches embers from trees after the San Bernardino Old fire jumped Highway 18 at Santa’s Village in Skyforest Tuesday ...

Historian Stephen Pyne sees no coincidence in the fact that on Oct. 8, 1542 — 475 years to the day before the wildfires began ravaging Northern California — the Spanish explorer Juan ...

In Harbison Canyon, there is no escaping the 2003 Cedar fire. It destroyed 287 homes in this tightly knit community as it tore across San Diego County, claiming 280,000 acres, 2,800 dwellings and ...

RELATED: Most destructive California wildfires in history While the cause of some remains unknown, some, such as 2003's Cedar Fire, were determined to be started by human-related causes, while ...

This is a list of the top 20 California wildfires since 1932, according to Cal Fire.The fires burned more than 6.5 million acres – an area more than twice the size of Santa Clara, San Mateo ...

The researchers analyzed nearly 18,000 fires that ignited in California between 2003 and 2020. Using artificial intelligence, they had models learn the relationship between temperature and extreme ...