California is again the center of the nation’s biggest and most destructive wildfires. Over 2 million acres have burned, with the enormous Dixie and Caldor fires (more than 917,000 and more than 216,000 acres, respectively) accounting for more than half of this acreage. More than 3,050 structures have been damaged or destroyed, and over 14,000 firefighters are battling blazes in the state. …The entirety of the state remains in drought, with 88 percent in extreme to exceptional drought, the two highest categories.

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