Red Salmon Complex fire
The Red Salmon Complex was a wildfire that burned 144,698 acres (58,557 ha) in Humboldt, Trinity, and Siskiyou County in Northern California during the 2020 California wildfire season. On July 27, lightning strikes in the Trinity Alps Wilderness started two fires, the Salmon Fire and the Red Fire, which eventually…
Where it happened
United States, as Wikidata places it.
- Wildfires
The record
- Date
- July 27, 2020
- Ended
- November 17, 2020
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Where
- United States
- Country
- United States
What happened
The Red Salmon Complex was a wildfire that burned 144,698 acres (58,557 ha) in Humboldt, Trinity, and Siskiyou County in Northern California during the 2020 California wildfire season. On July 27, lightning strikes in the Trinity Alps Wilderness started two fires, the Salmon Fire and the Red Fire, which eventually merged. As the fire grew, hazardous smoke levels surrounded Forks of Salmon, Orleans, Yreka, and Weed.
Sources
Wikidata Q104881847 (CC0); text from Wikipedia, “Red Salmon Complex fire”, CC BY-SA 4.0.