-September 23,2020-
Recent Sierra wildfires have torched hundreds of family cabins in the Sierra around Huntington Lake above Fresno and above Porterville at Sierra Crest and nearby tracts.
At Huntington Lake the massive Creek Fire destroyed 74 cabins in 4 neighborhoods according the volunteer fire department. Many were family owned seasonal cabins used by multiple generations. Hardest hit was the Huckleberry tract along the Northside of the lake where 44 cabins were lost. There are 420 privately owned cabins at the lake..
Above Porterville the month long lighting-caused SQF Complex wildfire has meant the loss of 191 residential and commercial structures.Damage was dramatic near Highway 190 at Alpine Village that saw 50 structures destroyed and 14 still in tact. Also hit was Sequoia Crest where 42 structures were destroyed and 59 still intact and Cedar Slope that suffered 26 structures destroyed- 15 still intact and 2 damaged.
Sequoia Crest is mostly filled with summer cabins surrender by large Sequoia trees. The County says the Stagg Tree – the 5th largest Sequoia in the world located here was unharmed by the fire.The vast majority of cabins in this tract are used as vacation cabins.Some 42 of them have gone up in flames.
One owner who rents out their cabin posted a notice online.”It is with great sadness that I report OUR CABIN BURNED TO THE GROUND along with 42 other cabins in Sequoia Crest on Sept. 13th. 59 cabins survived. The 130,000 acre Castle Fire has burned most of the cabins in the nearby communities of Alpine Village and Cedar Slope. The fire is still burning. It is just one of the more than two dozen wildfires burning in California. “