The largest of the ten fires burning across the state is the Mendocino Complex fire, spanning more than 350,000 acres.
Hot on its heels is the Carr fire, raging across more than 200,000 acres.
The fires have claimed at least eight lives so far, injured dozens and forced tens of thousands from their homes and cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
The California fires – the deadliest of 104 active across the United States – have reignited the long-standing climate change debate.
US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, visited the Mendocino Complex fire area earlier this week.
Mr Zinke took the opportunity to direct blame at environmentalists for the infernos.
He said climate change had “nothing to do” with the fires, but that limits on logging were to blame.
Speaking to local news station KCRA, he said: “America is better than letting these radical groups control the dialogue about climate change.
“Extreme environmentalists have shut down public access. They talk about habitat and yet they are willing to burn it up.”
Zinc said that as some environmentalists have campaigned for logging restrictions, they are decreasing a useful means of forest management, creating extra fuel for the fires.
Calling for an increase in timber harvesting, he said: “This is not a debate about climate change.”
His comments echo US President Donald Trump’s recent sentiments, expressed in an August 5 tweet which read: “California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amounts of readily available water to be properly utilised. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean.
“Must also tree clear to stop fire from spreading!”
The water claim made by the president, referencing decades-long disputes over California water rights, was met with immediate backlash and confusion because firefighters are not struggling with a water shortage.
Furthermore, experts and scientists disagree with the Trump administration.
Climate scientist Daniel Swain wrote in the Guardian that California had entered an “era of megafires” that is linked to “the long-term warming trend.”
This year, California has seen unprecedented high temperatures, which, mixed with gusty winds, are being blamed for the rapid spread of the fires.
Dr Selma Guerreiro , Researcher in Hydrology and Climate Change at Newcastle University, told Express.co.uk: “Climate change increases the odds of heat-waves, which is why we are seeing more heatwaves happening around the wold.”
However, Dr Guerreiro added: “There is no way of saying that a heatwave is caused just by climate change – climate change is something that is always superimposed on the natural variability of the climate.
“It is an extra ‘add on’ that makes heatwaves much worse and will continue to do so.”
The US is not the only country which has seen blistering heatwaves this year: Europe has seen record temperatures with countries as far north as Sweden reporting extended hot spells.
Dr Guerreiro said: “We can expect heatwaves to become more intense (hotter) and more frequent.
“That does not mean every year will have heatwaves and we cannot predict which years they will happen, just that they will happen more often.”
Dr Guerreiro said that, regardless of what we do right now, climate change is happening due to the emissions of greenhouse gasses.
“Even if we stop emitting right now we will still see a few years of temperatures rising but we can avoid the more serious impacts,” she said.
“The longer we take to drastically reduce our emissions, the worse the impacts will be.
“In the Paris agreement most countries of the world decided to keep warming levels below an increase of 2C and aim for 1.5C. However, we are already at around 1C and on track to hit around 3C.”