Wildfire updates: Dixie Fire now largest in California; smoke enters the Sacramento Valley
Sacramento Bee
3 hrs ago
Amelia Davidson, The Sacramento Bee
Jul. 23—As California's fire season rages on and firefighters take on multiple blazes, the Dixie Fire has become the state's largest wildfire this year to date and is driving smoke into the Sacramento Valley.
The Dixie Fire is burning on the border of Butte and Plumas counties, in the burn scar of the deadly 2018 Camp Fire. It has rapidly expanded to 142,960 acres (223 square miles), growing nearly 40,000 acres since Thursday morning.
Although most of the smoke from the fire has pushed east into Nevada, small amounts drifted south into the Sacramento area Friday afternoon, affecting capital residents for the first time since the fire began July 14.