Fuel moistures are historically low, ERCs and BI are in the 97-99%. Northern California remains under a Fuels and Fire Behavior

Advisory

Active:

Uphill Runs

Group Torching

Short-range Spotting

Narrative:

Fire remained active for most of the night, with short range spotting and small group torching. Increasing humidity in the early morning hours slowed fire activity. Active ground fire remained, but did not threaten control lines.

Construct direct and indirect line to secure fire perimeter. Direct line construction in the Westwood area will require a heavy

resource presence.

Provide for service calls within communities impacted by the fire: Chester, Hwy 36 corridor, Hwy 89 Corridor, Hwy 395 corridor, Paxton, Greenville, Jonesville, Crescent Mills, Taylorsville, Prattville, Canyondam, Butte Meadows, Bucks Lake, Meadows Valley, Rush Creek, Warner Valley, Pecks Valley, Williams Valley, Hunt Canyon, Susanville, Janesville, and the Greater Almanor area.

Structure protection and heavy mop up continues in Warner Valley, Cradle Valley, and Wilcox Valley. Protect threatened areas of Janesville, Indicator Peak and Loan Peak. Heavy mop and patrol of communities impacted by the fire front. "Make Safe" for repopulation. Resources will be working from Dyer Mountain east to Mountain Meadow Reservoir utilizing direct line to complete action in that area.

Continued holding action and point protection of communities and critical infrastructure will require a significant resource

presence for the next several operational periods.

Continued mop up of and patrol of 1,000-hr fuels will require a significant amount of resources due to the volume of fuels and the steep and rugged terrain.

Priority areas include structure protection in Janesville/Milford area, the Hwy 36 corridor, and the Mill creek drainage. Fire is well established in the Mill Creek Plateau. Continue direct and indirect line construction to prevent the fire from crossing the Mill Creek drainage

and impacting the

communities of Mill

Creek and Mineral.

If the fire were to become established in the Mill Creek

drainage, additional

fire spread could exceed 100,000

acres. Continue holding actions along 395, 89 and

36.

Resources have been surged to the Genesee Valley area to protect the community of Taylorsville and limit spread from spot fires and

active flanks.

12 hours:

Moderate-to-high overnight conditions, with thermal belt supporting active nighttime fire behavior. Fire is down to and across Genesee Valley road today, threatening many structures along Genesee Valley road. Smoke over area has moderated fire spread last few days, today it exposed to clear skies with much more active fire activity today. Spot fire

along the escarpment west of Hwy 395 on eastside of fire could impacting communities of Milford as fire spreads

laterally to the north and south along the escarpment. Potentially impacting Janesville on north-side of the fire along Hwy 395. Expect the fire activity to decrease after midnight in the early morning hours. Overnight recovery will be up

to 40-60%. Potential for crews to make progress on building containment lines and firing operations with increased Rh, cooler nighttime temperatures, and decreased nighttime windspeeds.

24 hours:

Temperatures will be in the double digits today. Forecasted winds continue out of the SW today. The atmosphere will

be improving in stability with a Haines of 3. Fire behavior will consist of wind, slope, and fuel continuity alignment

supporting surface fire spread, roll out, isolated torching and spotting. Moderate overnight recoveries may provide opportunity for line construction and firing operations. Expect comparable fire behavior as the previous operational period. Fire will still be backing down to and impacting Genesee Valley today but along the segment from west end of Genesee Valley towards Taylorsville, threatening many structures along Genesee Valley road.

48 hours:

Moderate Risk burn environment. Temperatures will be in the upper 80's to low 90's today and will be similar over the

next few operational periods. Fire behavior would include wind driven surface fire, group torching, crown runs with alignment and spotting. Moderate overnight recoveries may provide opportunity for line construction and firing

operations. Local thresholds will be exceeded. Expect an increase in fire activity with clear air.

72 hours:

Temperatures will be in the mid 80's over the next few shifts. Expect comparable fire behavior as the previous

operational period. Forecasted hot and dry weather through the end of the week.

Anticipated after 72 hours: Expect similar burning conditions. Temperatures will remain in the high 80's throughout the week.

Continuation of Box 4: California

Interagency Incident Management Team 1(CIIMT 1)is in command of the East Zone. East Zone Unified Command Agencies: Plumas National Forest and Lassen National Forest CAL FIRE IMT3 is in command of the West Zone. West Zone Unified Command Agencies: Bureau of Land Management, CAL FIRE, Lassen National Forest, National Park

Service

Continuation of Box 25:

The fire area is in portions of Butte, Lassen, Plumas, Shasta, and Tehama counties. Active fronts are in the Greater Lake Almanor area, Lassen NF, and Lassen NP, as well as on several private timber ownerships.

Continuation of Box 31(J): Civilians in indoor temporary shelters - 55 Civilians in outdoor temporary shelters - 233

Continuation of Box 32(E): East Zone - 3 responder injuries West Zone - 3 responder injuries

Continuation of Box 33:

State of Emergency for Butte, Lassen, and Plumas counties was declared by Governor Newsom on July 23rd, 2021. Butte, Lassen, Plumas, and Tehama

Counties have declared local

emergencies. FMAG has been approved for Butte, Plumas, and Lassen Counties.

The Plumas National Forest implemented Forest Order No. 05-11-00-21-18, effective from July 25, 2021, through September 30, 2021. The Lassen National Forest implemented Forest Order No. 06-21-07, effective from July 27, 2021, through September 30,

2021.

Continuation of Box 38:

Additional values at risk threatened: National Scenic and

Historic Trails: Pacific

Crest Trail, Bizz Johnson National Recreation Trail Inventory Roadless Area (IRAs): Bucks Lake (PNF), Butt Mountain (PNF), Chips Creek (LNF), and Cub Creek (LNF). Experimental Forests: Swain Mountain,

Blacks Mountain. Research Natural Areas

(RNAs): Green Island

Lake (LNF), Soda Ridge

(LNF), Cub Creek

(LNF), Mount Pleasant

(PNF).

Air Quality impacts: Reno, Carson City,

Susanville, Sparks,

Fernley and Quincy.

Airports impacted by TFR and smoke impacts: Rogers Field (Chester Airport), Ganser Field (Quincy Airport), Westwood Airport, Susanville Municipal

Airport, Herlong Airport Wilderness:

Bucks Lake Wilderness

(PNF), Caribou Wilderness (LNF), Lassen

Volcanic National Park

Wilderness.

Commercial timber ownerships: Sierra Pacific Industries, W.M. Beaty and Associates, Collins Pine. An estimated $1 Billion dollars of timber has already been destroyed with an additional $1 Billion still threatened. Total cumulative private timber loss -260,724 acres. Substantial losses of private and public timberlands have released decades of sequestered carbon, releasing it into the

atmosphere with

uncalculatable impacts to greenhouse gas

accumulations.

Waterways: Philbrook Lake (PG&E, LNF), North Fork of the Feather River (PG&E, PNF), Silver Lake (Drinking water, PNF), Thompson Lake (Drinking water, PNF), Butte Creek (T&E species: chinook and steelhead, PNF), Deer Creek (T&E species:

chinook and steelhead), Oliver Lake (T&E species: Sierra-Nevada Yellow-legged Frog, LNF), Gold Lake (T&E species: Sierra-Nevada

Yellow-legged frog, (PNF), Rock Lake

T&E species:

Sierra-Nevada Yellow-legged frogs, (PNF)

Additional T&E species (not listed above): California Spotted Owl, Valley Elderberry Beetle, Shasta Crayfish, Cascades frog, California Red-Legged

Frog, Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle, Grey wolf, Fisher, California wolverine, and Sierra

Nevada red fox.

Continuation of Box 39:

East Zone - A critical need for structure defense and point protection resources continues in the Genesee Valley region to assist resources actively engaged in structure defense due to the ongoing imminent threat to life and property from the fire on Grizzly Ridge. New Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for the community of Milford. Due to a low probability of success in holding operations along Grizzly Ridge, additional resources are requested to begin immediate preparations for defense of the

communities of Quincy, Greenhorn and Portola. High percentage loss is possible in all communities.

EAST ZONE:

A Red Flag Warning was in effect over the Dixie Fire on Saturday due to gusty winds. Winds gusted over 30 mph at times from the southwest through the late morning and afternoon. Relative humidity readings fell to the upper teens as well to accompany the strong winds.

Tonight: Humidity recoveries will be a little better than previous nights as a weak

front moves through the area. Ridge top winds will turn to the north after sunset but remain fairly weak. Mainly terrain driven winds 3-5 mph are expected in lower terrain.

WEST ZONE: Smoke from the Dixie incident and surrounding wildfires settled in over the region, but the smoke was not nearly as thick as previous mornings. Low temperatures were in the upper 30's to upper 40's. Light SW winds prevailed this morning along the ridge tops while winds were more terrain driven in the lower elevations.

Southwest winds increased across the entire incident today and were a bit gusty. 10

to 20 mph winds were common with gusts as high as 30 mph noted in the higher elevations and in the normally wind prone areas as a dry cold front moved through.

High temperatures were in the mid-70's to mid-80's and RH bottomed out in the 15 to 20% range. These gusty winds and critically dry fuels prompted the issuance of a local red flag warning

from 11 AM to 6PM.

The winds are predicted to diminish after sunset as the upper level storm system and dry cold front move away. Winds are expected to decrease along the ridgetops

through the night while winds become light downslope in the lower elevations. RH recovery

may improve except in the

thermal belt areas.

A much milder weather pattern is expected Sunday and into the middle of next week. A very weak area of low pressure will remain off the west coast through midweek, keeping light southwest flow over the incident with near normal

temperatures and humidity values.