A wildfire that started Wednesday afternoon on the edge of Chico grew in barely 12 hours to the largest fire of California’s season.
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The Park Fire was reported shortly before 3 p.m. in Upper Bidwell Park, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. Early Thursday, its size was estimated at 45,549 acres (71 square miles).
The first evacuation order came before 6 p.m., and by Thursday morning the evacuation zone covered more than 400 square miles in Butte and Tehama counties.
The map above shows the fire’s approximate perimeter as a black line and the evacuation area in red.
For details of the evacuation zone, including warning areas, see the Butte County evacuation map or the Genasys Protect map (Tehama County only).
