This article was updated on Nov. 12, 2018.

By any measure, the wildfires burning across California are among the deadliest and most destructive in state history.

As of late Monday, a pair of them accounted for 44 deaths. The Camp Fire alone is already responsible for 42 fatalities, the largest tally from a single wildfire in California history. Last year, the Tubbs Fire in Napa and Sonoma Counties killed 22 people.

[People trying to escape the blazes in California found streets turned into tunnels of fire.]

The three major fires now being closely monitored by officials — one in Northern California and two others in Southern California — have collectively destroyed more than 7,000 structures and scorched more than 200,000 acres. Tens of thousands of other buildings are still at risk.

Officials at Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency, do not usually lump separate — but simultaneous — blazes together for record keeping. And a spokeswoman has said that they are unlikely to start now.