2020 California Wildfires
California is no stranger to annual wildfires, but 2020 proved to be a wildfire season like none before it. Driven by the effects of climate change and compounded by a shortage of inmate firefighters due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 wildfire season became the largest season in California's recorded history with over 4.1 million acres burned and counting, more than doubling the previous record of 1.98 million acres set in 2018. The following photographs document firefighting efforts across both Northern and Southern California during the month of August.