Springs Fire
| Springs Fire | |
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A map of the footprint of the fire | |
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| Location | Camarillo, California |
| Statistics | |
| Burned area | 24,251 acres (9,814 ha) |
| Impacts | |
| Structures destroyed | 15 |
The Springs Fire was a wildfire in Ventura County, California in May 2013. Although the fire burned only 15 homes, it threatened 4,000. This threat passed when rain shower from few narrow cold-frontal rainbands moved through the California area because of a low-pressure system off the coast. Some places got more than half an inch of rain.
The fire started at 6:45 AM on May 2, 2013, in Camarillo, California near U.S. Route 101 and burned across Pacific Coast Highway to the Pacific Ocean. Several neighborhoods were evacuated, along with the campus of California State University Channel Islands.