The footprint of the Mill Fire has not expanded since around 5:30 a.m. Saturday, about 17 hours after it started.
Click “accept” or “decline” to see the full evacuation map, including an address search field., which started in Weed, they were being added for the Mountain Fire, about 10 miles to the west.
Mountain is now California’s fourth-largest wildfire of the season, having grown from 4,812 acres on Saturday evening to 8,460 acres on Sunday afternoon. It started late Friday afternoon, a few hours after the Mill Fire. Most of the Mountain Fire’s growth is now toward the west, into an area of difficult terrain, Justin Macomb of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said at a community meeting Sunday about the Mountain and Mill fires. About 700 homes are threatened in the sparsely populated area of Siskiyou County.
The footprint of the Mill Fire, which burned from near central Weed north to Lake Shastina, has not expanded since around 5:30 a.m. Saturday, CalFire’s Kent Cunningham told the community meeting. It was at 4,254 acres with 25% containment on Sunday afternoon. Though the gusty winds of Friday have died down, firefighting is hampered by humidity as low as 8% during the day. Winds are forecast to return on Wednesday.map above shows the evacuation area in red and the warning area in yellow for the fires. The temporary evacuation point is the Kahtishraam Wellness Center, 1403 Kahtishraam in Yreka, and a cooling center has been set up at College of the Siskiyous, in Weed.
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