Rabbit Fire
According to statistics published by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, a total of 7,386 wildfires burned a total of 332,822 acres in the U.S. state of California in 2023. This was below the state's five-year average of 1,722,059 acres (696,893 ha) burned during the same period. The 2023 fire…
Where it happened
United States, as Wikidata places it.
- Wildfires
The record
- Date
- July 14, 2023
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Where
- United States
- Country
- United States
What happened
According to statistics published by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, a total of 7,386 wildfires burned a total of 332,822 acres in the U.S. state of California in 2023. This was below the state's five-year average of 1,722,059 acres (696,893 ha) burned during the same period. The 2023 fire season followed the 2022 season, during which the number of fires and the resulting burned acreage were both below average. Four fatalities were reported during the 2023 fire season.
Sources
Wikidata Q120702813 (CC0); text from Wikipedia, “2023 California wildfires”, CC BY-SA 4.0.