14,000 firefighters, 25 major wildfires/complexes, over 2.2 million acres burned, 8 fatalities, more than 3300 structures destroyed. RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT THROUGH TOMORROW – EXTREME FIRE DANGER!
- Oak Fire, Mendocino County NEW
- North of Willits
- *863 acres, 5% contained
- *Evacuations in place
- LNU Lightning Complex, multiple North Bay counties
- Napa, Lake, Sonoma, Colusa, Solano, and Yolo Counties
- *375,209 acres, 91% contained
- *Hennessey (merged fires) 317,909 acres, 91% contained
- *Wallbridge 54,940 acres, 95% contained
- *1,491 structures destroyed
- *Evacuations in place
- *CAL FIRE Incident Management Team 2 in command
- SCU Lightning Complex, multiple Easy Bay counties
- Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara San Joaquin, Merced, and Stanislaus Counties
- *396,624 acres, 95% contained
- *20 fires in the complex, several have merged together
- *Evacuations and road closures in place
- *224 structures destroyed
- *CAL FIRE Incident Management Team 6 command
- CZU August Lightning Complex, San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties
- *86,509 acres, 81% contained
- *Multiple fires
- *Evacuations and road closures in place
- *1,490 structures destroyed
- *CAL FIRE Incident Management Team 3 command
- Butte/Tehama/Glenn (BTU/TGU) Lightning Complex, multiple Counties
- Butte, Tehama and Glenn Counties
- *69,735 acres, 58% contained
- *Elkhorn 50,126 acres, 55% contained
- *Ivory/Doe 16,100 acres, 95% contained
- *Potters (5-4) 927 acres, 98% contained
- *Includes multiple other smaller fires
- *14 structures destroyed
- *CAL FIRE Incident Management Team 4 in command
- Sheep Fire, Lassen County
- 4 miles southwest of Susanville (Plumas & Lassen National Forest)
- *29,570 acres, 90% contained
- *26 structures destroyed
- *CAL FIRE Lassen-Modoc Unit and CA IMT 10 in unified command
- August Complex, Tehama County
- Elk Creek and Stonyford area (Mendocino National Forest)
- *356,312 acres 24% contained
- *Includes multiple fires including the Doe Fire
- North Complex, Plumas County
- Southwest of Susanville (Plumas National Forest)
- *40,372 acres, 50% contained
- *Evacuations in place
- *Includes the Bear and Claremont Fire
- *CA IMT Team 1 is in command
- Red Salmon Complex – Humboldt County
- 14 miles northeast of Willow Creek (Shasta-Trinity National Forest)
- *45,476 acres, 20% contained
- W-5 Cold Springs, Lassen County
- 11 miles east of Madeline (Bureau of Land Management – Northern CA District)
- *84,817 acres, 98% containment
- Hobo, Vegetation Fire, Trinity County
- North of Helena (Shasta Trinity National Forest)
- *413 acres, 90% contained
Photo: Oak Fire near Willits – Via Twitter: Kent Porter
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