Animated Maps: Ten Most Destructive California Wildfires

In 2003, the Cedar Fire swept through Southern California’s San Diego County, consuming more than 273,000 acres, destroying nearly 3,000 structures, and killing 15 people. It was the state’s worst wildfire since the Tunnel Fire hit the densely populated hills of the Bay Area’s Alameda County in 1991. Although the affected area was a tiny fraction of Cedar’s size, Tunnel destroyed the same number of structures and killed nearly twice the number of people.
Since then, California’s wildfires have reached a level of nearly incomprehensible destructiveness. The Camp Fire, which struck a rural region up north in 2018, killed nearly as many people, and destroyed nearly as many structures, as the combined totals of the state’s nine other all-time worst fires. This year’s North Complex Fire, in the same region, has consumed almost as much acreage as those nine others combined-and it’s still burning after two months.
This animation uses fire perimeter data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) along with the USA Current Wildfires feature layer from the Living Atlas of the World. Please see the links below.
This animated map was made using Esri's ArcGIS Pro, Cinema 4D, DEM Earth, Redshift, and Adobe After Effects. Please visit ow.ly/fm2950xgu0B for more information about ArcGIS Pro.
Data Source: Fire Perimeters at frap.fire.ca.gov/mapping/gis-...
USA Current Wildfires: ow.ly/Rtu050BSIjN
Music: Nightfall Hymn by Yehezkel Raz
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[@benparrish9547]

Definitely could do this for every state in the west and we would watch it!

[@zulfaandriansyah9380]

Pretty cool

[@DodgeChargerPursuit]

I remember having to evacuate our house during the Cedar Fire in 2003. I was a kid

[@leowilliamsvanualailai9505]

Finally ESRI! Upward from here. Nice graphics. Maybe next time someone could narrate.

[@yilmaziskit1757]

Which program did you make it? İs anybody know that??

[@shaunconner295]

Cant believe that 2 of them burned in Santa Rosa

[@LogicalSkitz]

The glass fire was in august

[@StofleTheBadger]

Why isn’t federal land showing on the fires in Ca......federal land fires are why we have accumulated 4 million acres burned.....where is the federal money to support the fires? Good video though. Next do a 2020 version with all the fires 🔥

[@BellBivDeveau]

I’m sure those chemtrails have nothing to do with all the droughts and fires and ridiculous amounts of snow.

[@jacktheripper-gj1hx]

That's what happens when there's too many cars too many people

[@jopaljopal4256]

i'm guessing paradise, california, isn't paradise anymore..

[@StofleTheBadger]

Don’t make comments like that if your ignorant! PG&E caused the fire that killed more people in the history of any Ca wildfire.....think of the people lost and humble yourself!