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"No horrible news" has become good news in 2020, and thus we have good news to report about California's wine country fires.
The LNU Lightning Complex burning in five counties, but mostly in Napa and Sonoma, is – at 547 square miles as of Monday morning – now the second-largest fire in recorded California history. It's bigger than the city of Berlin or the city of Los Angeles, and is getting close to the size of Greater London. It has destroyed 845 structures already, and it's only 22 percent contained.
So how is that good news? Well, weather forecasters had predicted high winds Sunday night with a repeat of the dry lightning that started this mess. Fortunately, that didn't happen. Instead of the more than 10,000 lightning strikes that started California's week of fire hell, on Sunday night we got only 289. This did start 10 new fires, giving us 625 fires burning in the state. But the LNU fire was predicted to get much bigger, and instead it grew only 9 percent on Sunday night.
The unexpectedly milder night was good news for the 1700 firefighters pulling 72-hour shifts on the LNU fire, as well as the more than 12,000 firefighters working in other parts of the state. Another Bay Area fire, the SCU Lightning Complex mostly east of Silicon Valley, is almost as large as the LNU fire, making it third all-time right now behind the 2018 Mendocino Complex fire, which reached 717 square miles.
In northern Sonoma County, firefighters have so far been able to successfully defend the city of Guerneville, which was evacuated last week. Homes were burned in the city of Vacaville in Solano County last week, and homes in rural areas of wine country have unfortunately been destroyed, but so far the fire has not made the impact on wine country cities that the fires of 2017 did.
More unexpected good news came from the White House. Last week, President Trump threatened to cut off federal fire-relief funding to the largest state in the union – the state that contributes the most to the federal budget.
"Maybe we're just going to make them pay for it because they don't listen to us," Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Fortunately, Trump backed down and issued a major disaster declaration for seven Northern California counties, including Napa, Sonoma, Lake and Santa Cruz. This makes homeowners and business owners eligible for federal disaster relief funds.
Something in the air
As for the air quality, let's stick with that no-horrible-news narrative. Air quality is unhealthy again on Monday afternoon in San Francisco, but residents were able to open their windows on Sunday night as the air quality improved.
Extreme smoke remains unpredictable in local areas, and of course this matters for harvesting wine grapes. Santa Rosa, the largest city in Sonoma County, had very good air for several days despite the fires raging to the north, east and west. Only in the last two days has air quality deteriorated.
The city of Napa is similar: nice clean air until Saturday, August 22, but bad air since; the air in Napa reached "Very Unhealthy" on Sunday afternoon, according to the government-run Air Quality Index.
That said, the Sonoma Sheriff tweeted a picture Monday afternoon on its official Twitter account of undamaged Korbel Winery. Korbel had been one of the first wineries evacuated last week, and is near the still-burning LNU fire. The skies behind the winery were blue and the caption read: "The bubbles are awaiting your return."
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