What the records say
- When
- 4 Dec 2017 – 12 Jan 2018
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Coordinates
- 35.30° N, 119.73° W
- Description
- 2017 wildfire in California, USA
Placed at the middle of the 3 places Wikidata lists.
Thomas Fire
2017 wildfire in Southern California
The Thomas Fire was a massive wildfire that affected Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and one of multiple wildfires that ignited in Southern California in December 2017. It burned approximately 281,893 acres before being fully contained on January 12, 2018, making it the largest wildfire in modern California history at the time. It was surpassed by the Ranch Fire, part of the Mendocino Complex, in August 2018.
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- Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “New evacuations are ordered as the fires spread toward a string of California coastal cities”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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