SQF Lightning Complex fires
The SQF Complex fire—also called the SQF Lightning Complex—was a wildfire complex that burned in Tulare County in Central California in 2020. Comprising the Castle and Shotgun fires, it affected Sequoia National Forest and adjacent areas. Both fires began on August 19, 2020, and burned a combined total of 175,019…
Where it happened
United States, as Wikidata places it.
- Wildfires
The record
- Date
- August 19, 2020
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Where
- United States
- Country
- United States
What happened
The SQF Complex fire—also called the SQF Lightning Complex—was a wildfire complex that burned in Tulare County in Central California in 2020. Comprising the Castle and Shotgun fires, it affected Sequoia National Forest and adjacent areas. Both fires began on August 19, 2020, and burned a combined total of 175,019 acres before the complex as a whole was declared 100 percent contained on January 6, 2021. In the course of the fires, 232 structures were destroyed. There were no fatalities.
Sources
Wikidata Q104856854 (CC0); text from Wikipedia, “SQF Complex”, CC BY-SA 4.0.