Template talk:California wildfires by size

After rewrite/expansion, Great Fire of 1889 turns out to not be so great, only haveing really burned about 40,000 acres, so it's been demoted.  AK Radecki Speaketh  14:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I started to add other fires, but it was too much of a pain to figure out if they were worthy of top 10 notable.--64.166.167.55 17:53, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Wildfire 2007
-Ranch Fire has burned over 41,000 acres -Harris Fire has burned over 70,000 acres California_wildfires_of_October_2007 Xoirun 20:45, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Santiago fire
The Santiago fire should be added, as it has burned a large amount of acres (maybe not as much as some, but a lot) and has its own article. Happyme22 05:09, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

adding date started
I would suggest adding the date started to each fire, so people can see which years had the worst firesDavidPickett (talk) 17:48, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

2008 fires
Not sure if these are notable enough to include, and these aren't the final acreages... 102,460 Lime Complex 86,500 Shasta-Trinity Lightning Complex 76,554 Indians Fire 59,440 Butte Lightning Complex 59,334 Iron Complex--Berol (talk) 20:09, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

La Brea fire
It's big enough to make the list (67000+ acres), but I don't know that I'd call it notable.--76.209.221.57 (talk) 02:28, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

CAL FIRE Top 20s
CAL FIRE has several Top 20 Fires PDF fact sheets - by acres burned (all over 100,000 acres so this template needs to be updated; recent fires only, see note at bottom of table - http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf), by structures destroyed, and in deaths caused. - Facts Sheets - http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/communications_factsheets.php  go down to Statistics. - Petersam (talk) 02:54, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Acres conversion to (Sq miles and) Hectare instead of sq km
US uses acres instead of square miles for burn areas. Other nations use hectares instead of square kilometers; see Talk:Hectare and Category:2009 wildfires. Most of the recent wildfire articles for California also uses hectares instead of square kilometers; older articles uses km2. Therefore, I will change the conversion of acres to hectare instead of square kilometers unless someone objects. Petersam (talk) 23:28, 6 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Most American understand square miles better than acres and don't know what square kilometers would be. Just discovered that the Template:convert can convert acres to both square miles and hectare.  Unfortunately it cannot do a third conversion to square kilometers.  So, I will use the Template:Convert to change acres to square miles and hectare, if no objections.  Petersam (talk) 23:50, 6 September 2009 (UTC)


 * When land areas are expressed in acres, the metric analogue is hectares (ha). If the Convert template is used with only the acres unit, it produces the equivalent in hectares, not square kilometres.  If you see acres being converted to square kilometers in Wikipedia, it is most likely because the responsible editors didn't know their units.  For the purposes of this template, in order to minimize clutter, it should show the areas in acres and hectares only and "leave it as an exercise to the readers" to convert to square miles or square kilometers, if they desire. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 18:04, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Camp Fire (2018)
Should the Camp Fire (2018) be included in this list, since it has burned 153,336 acres? — Eli355 ( talk  •  contribs ) 00:33, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * absolutely. I've added it, if you don't mind keeping it updated? -- Zack mann  (Talk to me/What I been doing) 01:48, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll update it when needed. — Eli355 ( talk  •  contribs ) 14:45, 27 November 2018 (UTC)