Northern California is having a bad day.

New York Times

Wildfires are tearing through Northern California.

More than 367 new fires were caused by an extraordinary number of lightening strikes, about 10,849 over the past 72 hours, a fire official said. More than 300,000 acres are ablaze.

Firefighters are battling three groups of fires that have forced thousands of people to flee. The LNU Lightening Complex, above, covers 46,225 acres in Napa, Sonoma and Solano Counties — an area larger than Washington, D.C. See what photographers are capturing on the ground.

Separately, thousands of people in Cedar Rapids are unable to return to their homes after devastating winds tore through Iowa.