![]() ![]() Reportedly starting at 4:55 pm PST on Friday, July 31, as what was initially presumed to be two potential arson ignitions that later merged into one another, the fires started along the 9000 block of Oak Glen Road and Apple Tree Lane in the unincorporated community of Cherry Valley bordering Beaumont. The fire was named after one of the roadways close to the ignition site, which is named Apple Tree Lane. ![]() It now covers at least 33,424 acres (13,526 ha) and created "a plume of smoke so massive that it generated its own winds." The fire was sparked by a diesel-burning vehicle that emitted burning carbon. The fire ignited on Friday, Jas three separate smaller blazes within the rural canyons along Oak Glen Road before merging and rapidly expanded to 1,900 acres (769 ha) and destroyed at least one home and two outbuildings in the Cherry Valley area. The Apple Fire was a wildfire that burned during the 2020 California wildfire season in Cherry Valley south of Oak Glen and north of Beaumont and Banning in Riverside County, California in the United States. ![]()
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