California Wildfire Update

About 90,000 acres of the central Sierra region has caught fire in east Sacramento, California due to the King wildfire. However, because the region experienced a cool, moist weekend, the fire was able to be contained by 35%. So far about 2,800 people have been evacuated from their homes, but that number is expected to increase if the wildfire continues to get worse. This particular wildfire has been confirmed as the second largest wildfire of the season and even has a chance of making it to the top 20 worst wildfires in California history. Hopefully, the expected chances of rainfall following the end of the week will pose a break for some of the firefighters that have been attempting to contain this disaster. Despite all this, California has only been experiencing slightly above average acreage damage due to wildfires. Even so, this month has experienced some pretty horrible wildfires in California. Now that we are nearing the end of the dry season, hopefully we will be able to see that some of these wildfires cease.




Picture above was taken on September 14th along the shores of the Bass Lake in the central Sierra Mountain region.

Link: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=306