The Old Fire raged through the San Bernardino Mountains 10 years ago, in October of 2003, carving out a dubious place in history as the most devastating fire ever to strike the area. As huge as ...

Of the 18,000 California fires that sprang to life from 2003 to 2020, 380 of them included at least one day when they grew by at least 10,000 acres — an area as big as most of Manhattan.

California Wildfires Wildfires continue to burn across southern California, consuming hundreds of homes, ... October 27, 2003 12:00 AM ET. Heard on Talk of the Nation.

In October 2003, Southern California was ravaged by wildfires fueled by Santa Ana winds. From Oct. 21 to Nov. 4, there were 14 major fires burning from as far north as Santa Barbara County to as ...

The 2003 Cedar Fire scorched more than 437 square miles, nearly 3,000 buildings - including more than 2,000 homes - and killed 15 people before being contained.

Historian Stephen Pyne sees no coincidence in the fact that on Oct. 8, 1542 — 475 years to the day before the wildfires began ravaging Northern California — the Spanish explorer Juan ...

RELATED: Most destructive California wildfires in history While the cause of some remains unknown, some, such as 2003's Cedar Fire, were determined to be started by human-related causes, while ...

Two decades ago, during the 2003 Grand Prix and Old Fires, I was driving around Claremont, ... The terrible coda of Southern California wildfires is that the worst may be yet to come, ...

This is a list of the top 20 California wildfires since 1932, according to Cal Fire.The fires burned more than 6.5 million acres – an area more than twice the size of Santa Clara, San Mateo ...

The two largest firestorms have already been ranked by state fire officials among California's 20 most-damaging. Skip to ... 1,003 structures in October 2003, 6 deaths, across 91,281 acres in ...