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.

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 ...

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, ...