8/12/2023 0 Comments Dixie fire map updateOfficials credited aggressive firefighting, improved weather conditions and past forest management efforts with helping to prevent a worst-case scenario.Īnd although repopulation efforts in El Dorado County began Sunday after officials lifted evacuation orders, many residents are facing at least one remaining hazard: bears.Īuthorities warned residents that wildlife had moved into the area’s empty neighborhoods and were rifling through trash, and South Lake Tahoe Police Chief Dave Stevenson told Sacramento’s KCRA that 15 of 17 recent calls about break-ins turned out to be bears.Ĭalifornia How Lake Tahoe was spared devastation from the Caldor fire Portions of the blaze along the northeast and southern edges remained active overnight, and crews on Tuesday will be focused on keeping spot fires in check and reinforcing containment lines.īut the battle to save South Lake Tahoe was by many accounts a success as crews last week managed to keep the fire from taking hold in the popular resort town. The fire on Tuesday grew to 216,645 acres and was 49% contained, officials said. Meanwhile, the fight against the Caldor fire south of the Dixie fire is not yet finished. ‘We’ve got this thing kind of lassoed, and we just need to keep holding on to it with what we’ve got,’ one official said. Portions of the fire are also lapping at the perimeter of the recent Sugar fire, and tying the two blazes together could help slow the spread of flames due to a lack of fuel, or unburned vegetation.īut, Dixie fire operations sections chief Jeff Surbur said, “this fire has proven its ability to sustain itself.”Ĭalifornia ‘Cautious optimism’ as crews turn a corner on Caldor fire Officials said they may get a break later in the week as winds dissipate and firefighting conditions improve. The Dixie fire is also still very active in the rugged wilderness of Lassen National Volcanic Park, where firefighters are contending with steep terrain as they work to battle the flames. Nearly 6,000 structures remain threatened by the fire. We now add a PurpleAir closeup of the Canadian forest fires with bad air near Banff and Kamloops.įrom World’s Air Pollution waqi.Messick said sunny skies will meet with near-record heat in some areas of the fire this week, including temperatures in the high 90s around Milford and Herlong, where crews are scrambling to maintain containment lines along the 395 corridor.Īdditional property loss has been reported in the north end of Dixie Valley, bringing the total number of structures destroyed by the fire to 1,282, officials said. We add the PurpleAir closeup of the Northern California area of the Dixie and Beckwourth fires. The 365 reading in central USA is a single detector, and might be near an outdoor barbecue. The worst reading on the Southern Canada fires is 304. The worst reading at the location of California fires is 662. This shows the actual readings of PurpleAir air quality detectors of PM2.5. Orange is Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups of 101-150 ppm, and Yellow is Moderate of 50-100 ppm. The Red around the Dixie and Beckwourth fires is Unhealthy from 151-200 ppm. The worst in the map in Southern Canada is purple of Very Unhealthy at 201-300 ppm. PM2.5 measures particle air pollution of size 2.5 millimeters. From light blue to dark red.ĪirNow Map of Western Air Pollution from Western Fires, showing PM2.5. Greenville is at the edge on the middle of the East flank.ġ0 Day Progression of the Dixie Fire, 7/14 to 7/23. Here is the updated to August 5 map of the Dixie fire from. Don’t blame the Eastern air pollution on the US alone. The total acres burned as of July 21 in Canada is 5.31 million acres, or 8,300 square miles. The over 70 currently burning wildfires have burned more than 1.5 million acres, or 2,350 square miles. Update July 28: the total acres burned this year in the US is 3 million acres, or 4,700 square miles. The largest US wildfire is the Bootleg fire in Southern Oregon at 413,000 acres or 645 square miles. The Beckwourth fire near Lake Tahoe in California is stabilized at 105,670 acres or 165 square miles. It is Northeast of Paradise, which was destroyed in 2018, the worst wildfire in California’s history. There are 6,000 personnel working on the fire. It is in Butte, Lassen, and Tehama Counties, and is 25% contained. It is now threatening 16,000 structures, and has displaced 30,000 people. It has burned down the central district of the town of Greenville and 900 structures. It is now the second largest fire in California history. The Dixie Fire, Northwest of Lake Tahoe and of the Beckwourth Fire, is now the largest in California at (update August 10) 488,000 acres, or 763 square miles, larger than Los Angeles at 503 square miles.
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