The blaze remained 0% contained Friday night.
A brush fire in Mariposa County showed extreme behavior as it exploded in size to more than 4,000 acres over nine hours Friday, quickly becoming one of California’s largest wildfires of the year.
“Fire activity is extreme with frequent runs and group torching,” according to Cal Fire. “Vegetation is very receptive to new spot fires due to the hot, dry weather and drought. Heavy fuels, strong winds and low humidity are also influencing fire behavior.” A pyrocumulus cloud, formed by smoke rising vertically over wind-driven flames, balloons over the Oak fire Friday in Mariposa County.
The fire tore through an area with extremely dry fuels near “subdivisions nestled in the foothills amid dense vegetation,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and a California climate fellow at the Nature Conservancy,“With #OakFire, streak of relatively modest and non-destructive wildfires in CA so far this season appears to be over,” Swain said
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