The Railroad Fire was a wildfire that burned in between the communities of Sugar Pine and Fish Camp in the Sierra National Forest in California, United States. The fire was reported on August 29, 2017 and burned 12,407 acres (50 km2) before it was fully contained on October 24.[3] It occurred during the historic 2011–2017 California drought. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
The fire threatened communities in the area, historic buildings in the Nelder Grove Historic Area, Tenaya Lodge, and Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad, which the fire was named after. It also impacted tourism and air quality in the forest and Yosemite National Park. It killed 39 out of the remaining 104 giant sequoias in Nelder Grove.[4]
^"Incident Report". Incident Information System. Archived from the original on 7 December 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
^"Railroad Fire". Railroad Fire. Sierra National Forest, U.S. Forest Service. Archived from the original on 4 March 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
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