The unrelenting fire still threatens 2,155 buildings. That total includes 728 single-family homes and eight multi-unit residences. The total number of destroyed structures reached 1,329 compared to 1,282 reported Thursday morning. In an evening update, the blaze had reached 928,741 acres compared to Thursday morning's size of 927,320 acres.ĭixie Fire officials increased the number of buildings that have been destroyed. Meanwhile, the Dixie Fire grew by nearly 1,500 acres Thursday as containment was at 59%. Highways 44 and 89 are closed as the fire has crossed both major roadways. The National Weather Service in Reno issued a Red Flag Warning for gusty winds and low humidity that runs from 11 p.m. "This area is the number one priority of the management team," officials said Thursday evening. Hand crews and fire engines were sent to Old Station and Hat Creek to build and reinforce fire lines as helicopters and air tankers attacked the flames from the air Thursday. The forest remains extremely dry due to severe drought conditions, fire officials said, as a cold front brought heavy winds and erratic fire behavior. Zone 9-B extends from just east of Cinder Butte on the western edge to the Lassen/Shasta County line and north of Bald Mountain.Ĭlick here for a map of the Dixie Fire zones.It extends to the Shasta/Lassen County line. 9-A is an area east of Highway 89 just south of Hat Creek.Zones 9-A and 9-B now under evacuation orders are forested areas: Thursday: Dixie Fire conditions worsenĬonditions worsened in the west zone of the Dixie Fire as the weather took a turn for the worse where the blaze is burning in eastern Shasta County.Īlso Thursday night, the Shasta County Sheriff's Office upgraded evacuation warnings to evacuation orders for two zones. It’s less than a third contained.Watch Video: Dixie Fire approaches Old Station: 'It's terrifying' 7:30 p.m. The Dixie Fire has scorched more than 940 square miles in the northern Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades since it ignited on July 13 and eventually merged with a smaller blaze. The former Sierra Nevada logging and mining town has two state prisons, a nearby federal lockup and a casino.Īsh fell from the advancing fire, and a police statement urged residents “to be alert and be ready to evacuate” if the fire threatens the city. Susanville is the seat of Lassen County and the largest city that the Dixie Fire, named for the road where it started, has approached since it broke out last month. West warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme and wildfires more destructive, according to scientists. states that have seen historic drought and weeks of high temperatures and dry weather that have left trees, brush and grasslands as flammable as tinder. The Dixie Fire, which had burned some 600 homes, is the largest of the major wildfires burning in Western U.S. The utility said the precautionary shutoffs were focused in the Sierra Nevada foothills, the North Coast, the North Valley and the North Bay mountains and could last into Wednesday afternoon. Meanwhile, Pacific Gas & Electric announced it had begun shutting off power to some 51,000 customers in small portions of 18 northern counties to prevent winds from knocking down or fouling power lines and sparking new blazes. To the north the Dixie Fire - the largest of some 100 active wildfires in more than a dozen Western states - was advancing toward Susanville, population about 18,000. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for El Dorado County because of the blaze, which tripled in size between Monday and Tuesday afternoon to nearly 50 square miles. The Caldor fire in the northern Sierra Nevada had burned an estimated 50 homes in and around Grizzly Flats, a town of about 1,200 people, fire officials said at a community meeting. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Ī wildfire raged through a small Northern California forest town Tuesday, burning dozens of homes as dangerously dry and windy weather also continued to fuel other massive blazes and prompted the nation’s largest utility to begin shutting off power to 51,000 customers. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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