California wildfires: More ‘extreme’ activity pushes Dixie Fire close to 200,000 acres [The Sacramento Bee]
Jul. 26—California’s largest wildfire of 2021, the Dixie Fire, continues to threaten thousands of homes in Butte, Plumas and Tehama counties.
Nearly 5,500 personnel are now battling blaze, which ignited July 13 above the Cresta Dam in Feather River Canyon, Cal Fire’s Butte unit said in a Monday morning incident report.
The Dixie Fire has burned 197,487 acres — more than 300 square miles — and destroyed close to two dozen structures. The state fire agency reported containment at 22% as of Monday morning, up one percentage point from the prior evening. Nearly 11,000 structures are threatened.