2001 California wildfires
The 2001 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned throughout the U.S. state of California during 2001. According to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) statistics, 9,317 fires burned a total of 377,340 acres (152,700 hectares).
| 2001 California wildfires | |||||||||||||
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Wildfires burn around California's Central Valley in a photograph taken from the Space Shuttle on August 20, 2001. | |||||||||||||
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| Total fires | 9,317 | ||||||||||||
| Total area | 377,340 acres 152,700 ha | ||||||||||||
| Cost | US$196 million ($109m in suppression costs and $87.3m in damages, per Cal Fire estimates) | ||||||||||||
| Buildings destroyed | 389+ | ||||||||||||
| Deaths | 2+ | ||||||||||||
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The largest wildfire of the year in California was the Observation Fire in Lassen County, which burned 67,700 acres, and the most destructive was the Poe Fire in Butte County, which burned 133 structures. Cal Fire wildfire suppression costs for fires that burned within the agency's jurisdiction amounted to US$109 million. Damages for the same amounted to $87.3 million, with a total of 389 structures lost. At least two fatalities occurred, both of them on the Bell Fire in San Diego County.