Above: The red lines on the map were the perimeters of the Nuns and Atlas Fires Friday in northern California at around 10 p.m. PDT. The white lines were the perimeters about 24 hours earlier. The yellow and red dots represent heat detected by a satellite on Friday night and Saturday, as late as 12:57 p.m. PDT.
(Originally published at 6:07 p.m. PDT October 14, 2017)
Additional evacuations were ordered Saturday in northern California by Santa Rosa officials for areas endangered by the 46,104-acre Nuns Fire. The new mandatory area is north and south of Hwy 12 between Calistoga Road and Adobe Canyon Road.
Evacuation orders are still in effect for many other areas. Santa Rosa has an interactive map showing which areas are affected.
Friday night and Saturday morning the most active areas on the Nuns Fire were on the northeast side of the huge fire. Overnight winds pushed the fire toward the Oakmont community in Santa Rosa and kept the fire spreading east of Sonoma.
On Friday the Nuns Fire grew by over 4,000 acres.
The Atlas Fire is east of the Nuns Fire, Highway 29, Yountville, and Napa. It was much less active than the Nuns Fire, growing by about 211 acres on Friday to bring the total up to 50,872 acres. Satellites detected much less heat than was seen on the Nuns Fire.
This appears to be #TableFire 17 miles SW of S. Lake Tahoe. Large amt of smoke, some of it’s from firing operation. And, sat photo of N Cal pic.twitter.com/HvthpuL8k9
— Wildfire Today (@wildfiretoday) October 15, 2017
