The wildfires that have ravaged California have reached a bleak new milestone, having consumed 4m acres in a fire season that shows little sign of ending. The unprecedented figure – an area larger than Connecticut – is more than double the previous record for the most land burned in a single year in California. Meanwhile the August complex fire, in the Mendocino national forest north of San Francisco, on Monday became the first fire in state history to surpass 1m acres. The fire is nearly five times the size of New York City and is only 54% contained by weary firefighters.
— source theguardian.com | 5 Oct 2020