Today, the same regions that were submerged in 1861-62 are home to California’s fastest-growing cities. Although this flood is all but forgotten, important lessons from this catastrophe can be ...

California has experienced severe floods throughout the 20th Century, including in 1969, 1986, and 1997. But a flood from farther in the past – the Great Flood of 1862 – is being eyed by ...

California had been a state for scarcely a decade and was home to fewer than 500,000 people when it was hammered in the winter of 1861-62 by the most powerful series of rainstorms in recorded history.

The flood of 1861 was worse than you can imagine. The statewide catastrophe—a 43-day series of storms that began in December and lasted through January of 1862—turned much of the Central ...

It was the winter of 1861-1862 and a historic megaflood transformed the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys into a "temporary but vast inland sea," according to the study.

A new study warns that a disastrous megaflood may be coming to California in the next 40 years. ... The catastrophe began in December 1861, when nearly 15 feet of snow fell in the Sierra Nevada.

Risk of catastrophic California ‘megaflood’ has doubled due to global warming, researchers say A “1,000-year” rain event in Death Valley National Park left cars buried in mud and debris ...

The “ArkStorm” scenario refers to a period from December 1861 to January 1862, when a series of power atmospheric river boosted storms impacted California, leading to rapid, overwhelming ...

It was the winter of 1861-1862 and a historic megaflood transformed the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys into a "temporary but vast inland sea," according to the study.