The Kincade Fire continued to spread in Sonoma County late Sunday night and early Monday morning and has now burned 66,231 acres with only 5 percent containment, Cal Fire officials said in a 7 a.m. update.
The acreage burned was up about 12,000 acres from Cal Fire’s Sunday evening update on the fire, which started Wednesday night near Geyserville and has prompted the evacuation of residents from east of U.S. Highway 101 all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
A list of evacuation zones, which now include parts of Napa County and added the Larkfield-Wikiup area of Sonoma County overnight, can be found at sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2cb4401e1fc0494dbf9d9e22aa794617.
Containment on the fire dropped from 10 percent to 5 percent over the course of Sunday, and full containment isn’t expected until at least Nov. 7, according to Cal Fire.
At least 96 structures have been destroyed, 16 are damaged, and nearly 80,000 others remain threatened. Two firefighters were burned Sunday while battling the blaze — one taken to an area hospital by ambulance and another taken by helicopter to a burn center in Sacramento, Cal Fire Division Chief Jonathan Cox said.
A Red Flag Warning for high fire danger remains in effect through 11 a.m. Monday as wind gusts of up to 50 mph are still possible through the rest of the day.
Smoke from the Kincade Fire and other wildfires around the Bay Area over the weekend has spread across much of the region Monday morning. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a Spare the Air alert for Monday and advises people to stay indoors if possible.