Thread by @Sarah_Stierch

🌚GOOD EVENING🌚
HERE IS YOUR PM #LNULIGHTNINGCOMPLEX UPDATE FOR **#NAPACOUNTY** 8/23
I have ONE fire to tell you about: #HennesseyFire.
📸: Atlas Peak right now facing NW

Sonoma County posted after this report

1/15

Hennessey is part of the #LNULightningComplex in Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Colusa, Yolo & Solano Counties.
✅Total size Complex (3 fires) is 347,630 acres (up from 341,243)
✅21% containment total (up from 17%)
✅3 deaths (Napa Co.) 1 (Solano Co.)
✅4 civilian injuries

2/15

#LNULightningComplex
✅30,500 structures are threatened
✅871 have been destroyed (up from 845)
✅234 have been damaged (up from 231)

3/15

#LNULIGHTNINGCOMPLEX FIRE BEHAVIOR TONIGHT
📌Starts that jump over containment lines are “highly resistive” to control due to drought ridden, dry fuels.
📌Fire activity can increase in drainages due to winds from tonight’s possible thunderstorms

4/15

#LNULIGHTNINGCOMPLEX FIRE BEHAVIOR TONIGHT
📌Fires spreading up to 1.7 mile/hour, up to 25ft flames
📌Fire spots are jumping 1/2 mile ahead on average

5/15

CAL FIRE #HENNESSEYFIRE WEATHER FOR SUNDAY PM
🟥RED FLAG WARNING🟥
🌥Critical weather tonight
🌥Isolated to scattered thunderstorms
🌥Very dry air = unlikely to have any rain

6/15

CAL FIRE #HENNESSEYFIRE WEATHER FOR SUNDAY PM
🌥Erratic winds will be found where there are thunderstorms
🌥Valleys: Light and variable winds
🌥Ridges: SW wind 4-7 MPH
🌥Up to 40 MPH wind gusts near thunderstorms

7/15

#HENNESSEYFIRE
Started by lightning strike 8/17 near Lake Hennessey. This fire is active in Lake, Colusa, Solano and Yolo Counties.
✅290,102 acres (up from 287,811)
✅22% containment (up from 17%)

8/15

#HENNESSYFIRE today
🔥Crews on Lake County & Butts Canyon spread
🔥Fire activity continues in interior of fire and remote parts of the Lake Berryessa area, including in Cedar Rough Wilderness, near Anderson Mtn, and portions of Berryessa Snow Mtn NM

9/15

#HENNESSYFIRE today
🔥S side had no spread towards S or SW Napa
🔥NW side active just E of Aetna Springs, near NE Twin Peaks, NE of Sugarloaf Mtn & NW of Table Mtn
🔥Highest fire activity on N side around Butts Canyon

10/15

#HENNESSYFIRE today
🔥Spread on N and SW of Snell Valley Rd
🔥Spread N along Putah Creek up to just south of Devils Head Peak
🔥Continued spread into Mysterious Valley

11/15

#HENNESEYIFRE MANDATORY EVACUATIONS FOR NAPA COUNTY
No changes. All remain in place.
Find the map here. Blue means mandatory. Yellow means warning.
bit.ly/3j3chk9

12/15

#HENNESSEYFIRE ROAD CLOSURES IN NAPA COUNTY
Find them here: bit.ly/2FE8ZFy

13/15

#HENNESSEYFIRE EVACUATION CENTER
💒Crosswalk Church, 2590 1st St, Napa

🐈Small animals: Napa Co Animal Shelter, 942 Hartle Ct
🦄Ruminants: Ag 4 Youth 707-738-3079
🐴Horses: Napa Valley Horseman’s Asso 707-254-1009
🐴Horses: Valley Brook Equestrian Center 707-888-1517
14/15

STAY SAFE, STAY VIGILANT
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