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Climate vs Weather - How to lie with statistics
Climate change deniers can look at the last 5 years and say it's getting better or 2024 and say it's the same as the 10 year average so it hasn't changed.
Weather is the short term 5-10 year variation which is normal because of a variety of factors. Climate is the long term 50-100 year trend.
The chart below shows the 5 year averages and the trend is clearly apparent.

InciWeb - National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) - incident information system" | inciweb.nwcg.gov

See also: Cal Fire's twitter account
Cal Fire's Active fire list.
California Wildfire History Map | CapRadio

2024 Los Angeles Fires as of Jan 13

Rank	Name	County	Acres	Cause	Start date	Structures Destroyed	Deaths	Notes
1	Palisades	Los Angeles	23,713	?	Jan 7	>5,000	8
2	Eaton	Los Angeles	14,117	?	Jan 7	>7,000	17
Most Acres
1	August Complex	Glenn, Lake, Mendocino, Tehama, Trinity, and Shasta	1,032,264*	Lighting	Aug 2020	935	1	A series of 38 merged fires the largest of which were the Doe, Tatham, Glade, and Hull fires.
Largest structure loss and deaths
18	Camp	Butte	153,336	Power Lines	Nov 2018	18,804	86
Largest northern California Fires sorted by Acres since 1932
1	August Complex	Glenn, Lake, Mendocino, Tehama, Trinity, and Shasta	1,032,264*	Lighting	Aug 2020	935	1	A series of 38 merged fires the largest of which were the Doe, Tatham, Glade, and Hull fires.
2	Dixie *	Butte, Lassen, Plumas and Tehema	959,253	Under investigation	July 2021	>1,200	0
3	Mendocino Complex Ranch fire	Mendocino, Lake, Colusa, Glenn	459,123	Under investigation	July 2018	280	1	The Ranch Fire by itself, at 410,203 acres as of July 2018. 1 firefighter died. The fire complex burned for 5 months.
4	SCU Lightning Complex		396,624	Under Investigation	Aug 2020	224	1
5	Creek	Fresno, Madera	379,895	Under Investigation	July 2020	853	0
6	LNU Lightning Complex	Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Yolo, Lake	375,209	Under Investigation	Aug 2020	1491	5
7	Northern Complex	Pluas, Butte, Yuba	318,724		Aug 2020	2,352	15
8	Rush	Lassen	271,911	Lightning	Aug 2012	1	0	This fire burned an additional 43,666 acres in Nevada, for a total of 315,577 acres .
9	Rim	Tuolumne	257,314	Human Related	Aug 2013	112	0
10	Carr	shasta, Trinity	229,651	Human Related	July 2018	1604	8
11	Caldor	El Dorado	218,489		Aug 2021	850
12	Klamath Theater Complex	siskiyou	192,038	Lightning	June 2008	0	2
13	Marble Cone	Monterey	177,866	Lightning	July 1977	359	1
14	Monument	Trinity	170,945		Aug 2021
15	SQF Complex Fire (Includes Castle Fire and Shotgun Fire) T	Tulare	168,095		Aug 2020			he Castle fire destroyed up to a tenth of the world’s mature giant sequoia population.
16	Basin Complex	Monterey	162,818	Lightning	June 2008	58	0
17	Slater/Devil Fire	siskiyou	156,688		Nov 2020
18	Camp	Butte	153,336	Power Lines	Nov 2018	18,804	86
19	Rough	Fresno	151,623	Lightning	July 2015	4	0
20	McNally	Tulare	150,696		Jul 02	17	0
21	stanislaus Complex	Tuolumne	145,980		Aug 87	28	1
22	Northern California firestorm1, North Bay Fires, and Wine Country Fires	Lake, Sonoma, Mendocino, Butte, and Solano	141,000	Powerline (Atlas & Nuns), Homeowner equipment (Tubbs)	Oct 17	8,900	30	Fire Acres Deaths Tubbs fire  36,432 acres 22 Nuns fire  54,382 acres 2 Atlas fire  51,624 acres 6
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	Dolan	Monterey	128,416		Aug 20

* The Dixie Fire is the largest single fire in California history and the largest currently burning in the U.S. It is smaller than the 2020 August Complex, a series of lightning-caused fires across seven counties with a combined 1,032,648 acres that were fought together and that state officials consider California’s largest wildfire overall.

North Central Califronia Counties Map

Source: Top 20 Largest California Wildfires | fire.ca.gov
List of California wildfires - Wikipedia

1. The Northern California firestorm with North Bay Fires, and Wine Country fires in 2017 consisted of 3 but were not combined to qualify for the top 20 list. The 2020 LNU Lightning Complex fires (#3 in total acres) covering a similar area consisted of several fires which merged, so Cal Fire combined them.

Cal Fire Releases Cause of a Dozen More October Fires in 2017: Nearly All Tied to PG&E | KQED

Well known fires which may be part of the above.

• Kincade frie (incl. Cobb mountain) 24K+ acres - Lake Co. Oct 2019<
• Mendocino Complex (incl. Cobb mountain) has burned more than 150,000 acres, Sept 2015
• Ferguson fire near Yosemite 75K+ acres July 2018

Source: Top 20 Largest California Wildfires | fire.ca.gov

List of California wildfires - Wikipedia
A history of California Wildfires | CapRadio