Editing Ventura County, California (section)

====Thomas Fire====
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The Thomas Fire was a massive [[wildfire]] that affected Ventura and [[Santa Barbara County, California|Santa Barbara]] Counties, and one of [[December 2017 Southern California wildfires|multiple wildfires]] that ignited in [[Southern California]] in December 2017. It burned approximately {{convert|281,893|acre|sqmi ha|0}}, becoming the largest [[List of California wildfires|wildfire in modern California history]], before it was fully contained on January 12, 2018.<ref name="largest wildfire">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-thomas-fire-size-20171222-20171222-htmlstory.html|title=Thomas fire becomes largest wildfire on record in California|author1=Michael Livingston|author2=Javier Panzar|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=December 23, 2017|access-date=December 23, 2017}}</ref>

The Thomas Fire destroyed at least 1,063 structures, while damaging 280 others;<ref name="31,000 acres">{{cite news|url=http://fox5sandiego.com/2017/12/04/fast-moving-brush-fire-burns-100-acres-in-ventura-county/|title=Deadly Thomas Fire in Ventura County explodes to 31,000 acres overnight, 150 structures burned|work=Fox5News|date=December 5, 2017|access-date=December 5, 2017}}</ref> and the fire caused over $2.176 billion (2018 USD) in damages,<ref name="charting">{{cite web|url=https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2018/04/charting-the-financial-damage-of-the-thomas-fire|title=Charting the Financial Damage of the Thomas Fire|author=Annette Ding|publisher=The Bottom Line|date=April 10, 2018|access-date=May 26, 2018}}</ref><ref name="agriculture suffers" /> including more than $204.5 million in suppression costs, becoming the seventh-most destructive wildfire in state history.<ref name="grows">{{cite news|url=http://abc7.com/thomas-fire-chars-230k-acres-moves-into-santa-barbara-county/2764882/|title=Thomas Fire grows to 230,000 acres as it continues destructive path into Santa Barbara County|author=Chelsea Edwards|publisher=ABC 7|date=December 11, 2017|access-date=December 11, 2017}}</ref> The agriculture industry suffered at least $171 million in losses due to the Thomas Fire.<ref name="agriculture suffers">{{cite news|url=https://www.vcstar.com/story/money/business/2018/01/23/over-170-million-damage-sustained-ventura-countys-agricultural-industry-thomas-fire-according-data-p/1055678001/|title=Ventura County agriculture suffers over $170 million in damages from Thomas Fire|author=Tyler Hersko|newspaper=[[Ventura County Star]]|date=January 23, 2018|access-date=January 25, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hersko |first=Tyler |date=January 3, 2018 |title=Burned by Thomas Fire, Ventura County farmers look toward recovery |newspaper=Ventura County Star |url=https://www.vcstar.com/story/money/business/2018/01/03/burned-thomas-fire-ventura-county-farmers-look-toward-recovery/971672001/ |access-date=February 28, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2019/11/27/valley-fever-symptoms-treatment-cases-ventura-county-california/4311056002/|title=Valley fever rate stays high in Ventura County, sparks debate about fire, global warming|last=Kisken|first=Tom|date=November 27, 2019|newspaper=[[Ventura County Star]]|language=en|access-date=November 28, 2019}}</ref> [[Southern California Edison]] paid the county over $11 million in claims related to damages and costs since its equipment was likely associated with one ignition point of the fire near Santa Paula.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/28/ventura-county-fires-edison-thomas-fire-woolsey-claims-resolved/2730318001/|title=The money is in: County gets more than $16M from Edison|last=Wilson|first=Kathleen|date=December 28, 2019|newspaper=[[Ventura County Star]]|language=en|access-date=December 30, 2019}}</ref>