With a total incident area of around 100 acres: the Auto fire in Ventura County, the Little Mountain fire in San Bernardino County, and the now-contained Scout fire in Riverside County.
Although this week’s California fires are on course to be the most expensive in American history, they are by no means the biggest,
Even inside the state—the record, according to CAL FIRE, was set by the August Complex fire in 2020, which burned over a million acres.
