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As of Thursday morning, the Camp Fire, which has killed 56 people and destroyed the city of Paradise, has burned 142,000 acres, equivalent to 107,000 football fields, or about ten Manhattans. Firefighters say the blaze may not be fully contained until the end of November.
Keeping this in consideration, how many square miles was the camp fire?
211 square miles
Similarly, you may ask, how big was the Paradise fire?
153,335 acres were burned by the wildfire, approximately the size of Chicago. The fire spread to more than 100,000 acres within the first two days. 18,800 structures were destroyed, the vast majority of them — almost 14,000 — were residences. Around 30,000 people lost their homes.
At its fastest, the Camp Fire in Northern California spread at more than a football field a second, or around 80 football fields per minute. It burned through 20,000 acres in less than 14 hours on Thursday.