2020 Wildfires
Almost 2.5 million acres of land have burned in California so far this year, nearly 20x what had burned at this time last year. The August Complex Fire is officially the state's biggest wildfire, burning 471,185 acres, and there are 28 other major fires across the state (as of the article's reporting). At least 23 people have died. *(as of September 9th 2020)