California wildfires now as big as the Grand Canyon

By Andrew Chamings

 that the extent of the fire damage ravaging the state is now at 1.2 million acres, nearly the size of the entire Grand Canyon.

Some 1,875 square miles of California have succumbed to the wildfires that ignited early last week. To compare, the Grand Canyon covers 1,902 square miles. Rim-to-rim, it takes hikers around three days to get from the North Rim to the South Rim. For another perspective, the area of fire damage in California right now is larger than Rhode Island’s 1,212 square miles, and just shy of the state of Delaware, which covers 1,954 square miles.

The size of the damage can be hard to grasp, so last week we took a look at how the vast swaths of the SCU Lightning Fire Complex compared to the size of Lake Tahoe and Maui, among other places. At that time the SCU complex was burning an area 10 times that of Manhattan; today it is 25 times larger.

While there are dozens of active incidents still raging on Monday (check the Cal Fire incident map for details), two of the fire complexes make up the majority of damage. The LNU Lightning Complex in the North Bay and the SCU Lightning Complex to the east of the Bay Area together make up around 700,000 acres of burned territory, both currently covering around 350,000 acres……More Here

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