Soberanes Fire

The soberanes fire burned for nearly four months and cost about 260 million to put out making it at the time the costliest firefight in recorded u s.

Soberanes fire. The massive soberanes fire was caused by someone who lit an illegal campfire cal fire unit chief brennan blue said tuesday. Cfmc soberanes fire fund the community foundation for monterey county cfmc has created the soberanes fire fund to assist affected communities affected by the soberanesfire which began july 22 2016. California soberanes fire fm 5137 ca incident period. New evacuations were ordered monday for this fire that has blackened more than 121 000 acres.

Donations to the fund will provide both immediate relief and support rebuilding and recovery efforts in the aftermath of the fire. The soberanes fire was the result of an illegal campfire in garrapata state park. Effective november 9 the soberanes fire closure was adjusted re opening most of the monterey ranger district and ventana wilderness areas. The soberanes is now 88 654 acres and 60 contained.

This is good news. The soberanes fire was a large wildfire that burned 57 homes and killed a bulldozer operator and cost about 260 million to suppress making it at the time the most expensive wildfire to fight in united states history. That being said it s not all rainbows and moonbeams just yet. 2020 statewide fire summary.

The wildfire sparked in garrapata state park on july 22 before it burned. The soberanes fire is burning in areas of previous large wildfires including the basin complex of 2008 and the marble cone fire of 1977. This year s acres burned is 26 times higher than the acres burned in 2019 for the same time period. July 22 2016 october 5 2016 declaration date.

Since the beginning of the year wildfires have burned over 3 1 million acres in california. Tuesday update day 33 a community meeting will be held this thursday august 25th at 6 00pm in the cachagua general store.