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Firefighters initially believed the fire had begun to subside, but its magnitude significantly increased around midnight on Saturday as thunderstorms and dry fuel pushed the fire north toward the Oregon state line. There are now about 1,400 personnel working on the ground, according to fire officials. The McKinney Fire began to burn in the Klamath National Forest in Siskiyou County on July 29. What we know about the McKinney fire so far A firetruck drives along California Highway 96 as the McKinney Fire burns in Klamath National Forest, Calif., Saturday, July 30, 2022. Here’s what you need to know about California’s wildfires so far this year.
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More than 5.7 million acres have been burned so far this year-more than 85% higher than at this point last year, and more than at this point in any year since 2015.
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There are currently 60 active large wildfires burning across 14 states nationwide-engulfing about 1.6 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). A heat wave across the Pacific Northwest and years of drought that have resulted in very dry fuel in forests-both of which experts say are made worse by climate change-are creating conditions for bigger, more frequent, and more unpredictable fires across California this year. The McKinney Fire, along with the 19,000-acre Oak Fire near Yosemite National Park, show that the California wildfire season is ramping up once again. The fire has been blamed for the deaths of two people who were found Sunday in a burned out vehicle. The McKinney Fire in far northern California has so far burned more than 55,000 acres-an area more than one and a half times the size of San Francisco-making it the largest wildfire in the state so far this year.