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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