California is an official disaster

Trump issues disaster declaration for California as wildfires rage

Those areas include Lake, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo counties, according to a White House statement.

Hundreds of active fires in those areas have already burned around 1 million acres, according to Cal Fire officials.

The state is also battling two of the largest fires in the state’s history: the 314,000-acre LNU Lightning Complex Fire in the northern Bay Area and Central Valley, and the 291,000-acre SCU Lightning Complex Fire largely east of San Jose.