Fire Ecology

Table 1 Selected California, USA, wildfires, from 2003 to 2018, interpreted as fuel-dominated vs. wind-dominated (Data from California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s Fire and Resource Assessment Program, http://www.frap.fire.ca.gov/)

From: Twenty-first century California, USA, wildfires: fuel-dominated vs. wind-dominated fires

							Lives lost (n)	Structures destroyed (n)
Year	Fire name	County	Month	SA^a (days)	Area (ha)	Cause	Lives lost (n)	Structures destroyed (n)
Fuel-dominated fires
2007	Marble Cone	Monterey	Jul		72 000	Lightning	0	0
2012	Rush	Lassen	Aug		110 000	Lightning	0	1
2013	Rim	Stanislaus	Aug		104 200	Campfire	0	112
2015	Rough	Fresno	Jul		61 400	Lightning	0	4
Wind-dominated fires
2003	Cedar	San Diego	Oct	3	109 00	Flares	15	2 720
2007	Witch	San Diego	Oct	2	80 200	Powerline^b	2	1 265
2017	Tubbs	Sonoma	Oct	2	14 900	Powerline	22	5 643
2017	Thomas	Ventura	Dec	10	114 000	Powerline	2	1 063
2018	Woolsey	Ventura	Nov	2	39 000	Powerline	3	1 643
2018	Camp	Butte	Nov	2	62 000	Powerline	88	18 804

^aNumber of days of Santa Ana winds
^bState and federal agencies use this designation for electric line failures from various causes

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