LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – While overnight rains gave Northern California a soaking, Friday reports from fire officials noted no major gains in containment because of the rain in the region’s wildland fire areas.
The National Weather Service’s Sacramento office reported Friday that California’s wildfire locations generally saw about half an inch to one inch of rain.
In Lake County, where the Sulphur fire is in the mop up stages, rainfall totals reported by the National Weather Service ranged between just under two tenths of an inch in Lakeport, jtwo-tenthshalf an inch in Kelseyville and up to 0.68 inches in Whispering Pines.
In the Sulphur fire area itself, rainfall amounts appeared to range closer to a third of an inch, based on the observations.
On Friday, Cal Fire’s last full report on the Mendocino Lake Complex, which includes the Sulphur fire in Lake County and the Redwood fire in Mendocino County, put the complex’s overall containment at 95 percent and size at 38,730 acres.
The Sulphur fire, which remains at 2,207 acres, did not grow in containment overnight despite the rains, remaining at 96 percent. However, Cal Fire’s report noted that the 36,523-acre Redwood fire’s containment grew by 5 percent to 95 percent.
Full containment on the complex is still anticipated on Nov. 1, the agency said.
The Central LNU Complex in Napa and Sonoma counties was at 107,366 acres on Friday, a slight rollback on size, with total containment up to 85 percent, Cal Fire said.
Slight containment increases were reported on all of the fires in the complex, including the Tubbs fire, 36,432 acres, 93-percent containment; the Pocket fire, 16,552 acres, 82-percent contained; the Sonoma Nuns fire, 34,398 acres, and the Napa Nuns fire, 19,984 acres, with 85-percent containment on both of those incidents, according to Cal Fire.
Cal Fire expects to fully contain the Central LNU Complex, the most damaging fire incident in the state’s history, by Oct. 24.
The Southern LNU Complex in Napa and Solano counties remains at 51,624 acres, with containment up just slightly overnight to 87 percent, Cal Fire said.
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Containment up slightly on region’s wildland fires; no significant impact from rain
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