Fire risk
- The potential for large fire remains moderate as a cooling trend begins today and lasts through the end of the week.
- Unit wide, average simulated fire size is 190 acres.
- Largest simulated fires occur:
- Batt 1; Ventana and Silver Peak Wilderness.
- Batt 3; Arroyo Seco, Metz Rd, Pinnacles, Stonewall Canyon, Hwy 198
- Batt 4; Williams Hill, FHL, San Ardo, Bradley, Parkfield.
- Batt 5 & 6; Pinnacles, Panoche, Quien Sabe Valley, San Benito Mountain.
- Largest simulated fires occur:
- 1500 - 1800
Weather
- Partly to mostly sunny days and mostly cloudy or clear nights are forecast over the next two days.
- Expect some morning patchy fog in coastal areas
- Winds will be northwest, west or southwest at 5 - 10mph, increasing in the afternoons.
- Wind direction will be south or southeast for the Santa Lucia Range.
- Expect gusts up to 30mph at high elevations of the Santa Lucia, Diablo, and Gabilan Ranges
- Temperatures (daytime maximum)
- Coastal: low-60s to mid-70s
- Inland: mid-70s to upper-80s
- RH (daytime minimum)
- Coastal: 60 – 85%
- Inland: 25 – 45%
Maps below do not consider any suppression efforts. Areas with no fire size potential (colored squares) are less likely to ignite due to high fuel moisture or non-burnable fuel types.
