Dry vegetation and heavy winds have aided the fire in ravaging 370 homes and threatening almost 14,000 more in the region.
The fire eclipsed the previous record holder from 2020, the Creek Fire in Central Valley, to become the largest single documented fire in state history. The August Complex, a string of fires sparked by lightning across multiple California counties in 2020, is still considered by state officials to be the largest overall wildfire the state has seen, AP reported.The Dixie Fire has become the single largest documented wildfire in the history of California.
"The live trees that are out there now have a lower fuel moisture than you would find when you go to a hardware store or a lumber yard and get that piece of lumber that's kiln dried," Mark Brunton, operations section chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said in an online briefing Sunday morning."It's that dry, so it doesn't take much for any sort of embers, sparks or small flaming front to get that going.
"Every bit of that line needs to be constructed, staffed, mopped up and actually put to bed before we can call this fire fully contained," Waters said during Saturday evening's incident briefing.
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