Cedar Fire - Wikipedia

The Carr Fire, as it came to be known, ignited on July 23 near the hamlet of Whiskeytown, fifteen miles west of Redding, due to sparks thrown by a trailer wheel with a flat tire. Three days later, the fire roared into the city. The temperature that day was similar to Black Saturday, 2009: 113°F (tying a local record that was 13°F above the average

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At the fire's peak, it destroyed one house every 11 seconds. By the first hour, the fire had destroyed nearly 790structures.

On December 4, 2017, the fire was first reported by a nearby resident at 6:26 p.m.