Lake Michigan, by volume, is the second largest Great Lake and the only one located totally within the United States. [85], From October 9 through 13, Snapchat ran a geolocation tagging filter to isolate material about the fire, and these posts were featured on the Discover page. Great Lakes Maritime History Project [111 vols.] [86] By October 11, over 12,000 videos and images had been uploaded to Snapchat. In Washington, more acres had been burned in 2020 than in the past 12 fire seasons. The Carr Fire, which broke out on July 23 in Northern California, was the 8th most destructive fire in the state’s history to date. [25], By about 2 am, the fire, carried by near hurricane-level winds,[24] had spread further to the west, crossing Highway 101. It destroyed more than 5,643 structures,[4][6][13] half of which were homes in Santa Rosa. [28] Meanwhile, east of the highway, the Fountaingrove Inn, the historic Fountaingrove Round Barn nearby, and a large Hilton hotel were destroyed;[29][30] 116 of the 160 units at the Journey's End Mobile Home Park burned to the ground, while the remainder of the park was later red-tagged due to heavy damage. In northern Santa Rosa, the peak wind gusts at 9:29 p.m. hit 30 mph; an hour later, they were 41 mph. The last 2 years of U.S. wildfire damage has been unprecedented in damage, with losses exceeding $40.0 ($41.2) billion. In Oregon thousands of residents evacuated their homes to escape the flames that scorched more than 230,000 acres. In response to the soaring cost of wildfires in 2018, which could add up to more than $17 billion when all losses are tallied, California enacted legislation to form a $21 billion wildfire insurance fund designed to cover California utility companies for some of the losses they could incur when they pay victims of fires that their equipment caused. Another fire, the SCU Lightning Complex Fire, located in five counties in northern California near San Francisco, is the third largest fire on record in the state, burning almost 400,000 acres. Aon estimates that insured losses from the Woolsey Fire totaled $4.2 billion when it occurred ($4.3 billion in 2020 dollars), making it the third-costliest wildfire in the United States. As many as 90 percent of wildland fires in the United States are caused by people, according to the U.S. Department of Interior. Major emergency incidents could include large, extended-day wildfires (10 acres or greater), floods, earthquakes, hazardous material spills, etc. According to Verisk’s 2019 Wildfire Risk Analysis 4.5 million U.S. homes were identified at high or extreme risk of wildfire, with more than 2 million in California alone. [33] The Cardinal Newman High School campus was badly damaged, as was one end of the Luther Burbank Center for the Performing Arts. 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[45], One active part of the fire was east of the town of Windsor, with the fire burning from Shiloh ridge to Chalk Hill Road and Knights Valley. (1) Includes losses sustained by private insurers and government-sponsored programs such as the National Flood Insurance Program. Several local outlets received national recognition for their broadcasts.