Strong winds are expected to plague the Dixie fire burn area, which has exploded to nearly 570,000 acres in Northern California.
The second-largest California wildfire has burned more than 500,000 acres. See the remains through the smoke and ash.“A lot of these lines will be tested today,” Janssen said Monday, “and it’s going to be pushing pretty hard up there on that north end.”, as well as the Lassen Volcanic National Park, where flames arrived in early August and forced the park’s closure.“It’s a treasure up there,” Janssen said of the park, noting that the fire has rapidly expanded through forested areas.
The Dixie fire has destroyed more than $1 billion worth of timber, and an additional $1 billion is still threatened, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
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