Major fires continue to burn through parts of Northern California, including the state’s largest ever, the August Complex in Mendocino and Humboldt counties, which had scorched 834,000 acres and continued to grow Sunday.
Ignited by lightning more than a month ago, the August Complex fires are burning mostly forest land but have caused thousands to evacuate, destroyed 86 structures and led to one fatality, according to Cal Fire. The agency said the complex was 34% contained Sunday morning. More than 2,000 firefighters are fighting the blaze, including crews from Montana, New Jersey, Texas and Idaho.
Four of the five largest fires in California history started in August, including the LNU Lightning Complex, the SCU Lightning Complex and the North Complex fires.
The North Complex Fire in Butte, Plumas and Yuba counties burned 291,200 acres and was 62% contained Sunday, Cal Fire said. The fire destroyed 1,561 structures and resulted in 15 fatalities, the fifth-deadliest fire in California history.
Three big Bay Area blazes that began in mid-August have been almost entirely contained.
In Southern California, the Bobcat Fire that started on Sept. 6, burned almost 100,000 acres with evacuations ordered on Saturday for residents of Antelope Valley. The fire was 15% contained Sunday morning.
Daniel Swain, a climate expert with UCLA, tweeted on Sunday: “After a few calm weather days, fire activity on the extremely large wildfires still burning throughout California is slowly picking up again. Air quality starting to worsen in some spots as smoke increases.”
Wildfires have burned more than 3.5 million acres in California this year.
Shwanika Narayan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: shwanika.narayan@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @shwanika Instagram: @shwanika
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