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Mount Vision Fire

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Burned area
  
12,354 acres (50 km)

Buildings destroyed
  
45

Cause
  
Illegal campfire

Start date
  
October 1995

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Location
  
Point Reyes, Inverness, California

Cost
  
6.2 million USD ($10 million today)

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The Mount Vision Fire was a wildfire that burned 12,354 acres (50 km2) of land on the Point Reyes National Seashore peninsula in northern California during October 1995. The fire, which was started by an incompletely extinguished campfire, destroyed 45 homes in Inverness Park.

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Mount Vision Fire Wikipedia