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Map: Pickett Fire evacuations near Silverado Trail in Napa County
A fire burning near Silverado Trail wineries prompted evacuation orders in Napa County. The Pickett Fire was reported around 3 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21, off Pickett Road, near Calistoga. By Saturday night, it had burned 6,531 acres (10 square miles) with 11% containment, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.
Map: Pickett Fire in Napa County
VIIRS/MODIS satellite hotspot data is updated daily in the morning with the red dots indicating which direction the fire is moving. The color of the dots shows how recent the data is (red is today, orange yesterday, yellow two days old). Perimeter data is updated by Cal Fire twice daily. For more information from Cal Fire, go here.
Prior to additional evacuations Saturday evening, between 110 and 170 people had been told to leave their neighborhoods, ...
Pickett Fire, which began on Aug. 21, has spread to more than 6,800 acres through Napa County, just east of Santa Rosa, as of Aug. 25. The fire is 13% contained, and its cause remains under ...
Cal Fire’s maps, which are still in draft form, establish what the state calls fire hazard severity zones, which measure the likelihood of a major wildfire hitting certain areas and ...
Caldor, the third-biggest fire of 2021, began on Aug. 14 of that year just east of Omo Ranch and burned 221,835 acres, ...
Temporary evacuation sites were established at Benjamin Foxen Elementary School in Santa Maria and the Cuyama Valley Family ...
Cal Fire says there are many steep inclines, making it hard for crews on the ground to travel to the fire zones.
The fire hazard severity zone maps are like flood zone maps, and they don’t evaluate risk, said Cal Fire. Instead, the maps evaluate hazard, or the “physical conditions that create a ...
Temperatures in the area are near 100 degrees and humidity as low as 15 percent. The southern part of California has seen ...
Cal Fire released updated maps on Monday that show where wildfires are most likely to occur within the next several decades. The risk level on the maps are split into three categories: ...
The maps, covering 15 counties in Central California, are part of Cal Fire’s two-month rollout of new hazard zones for the regions where local city and county fire departments are ...
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