Mendocino Complex Fires grow to over 300,000 acres collectively

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Mendocino Complex Fire now bigger than Los Angeles

The Mendocino Complex Fires are now bigger than Los Angeles.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Cal Fire officials said crews are still working hard to contain the Mendocino Complex Fires which have scorched over 300,000 collectively.

The River Fire has now grown to 48,920 acres and is 84 percent contained, while the Ranch Fire grew overnight to 255, 482 acres. So far that fire, is 48 percent contained.

The Mendocino Complex Fires is now the largest fire in state history, and bigger than the city of Los Angeles. If it were a city, the fire would be the 14th largest by area in the entire country, and bigger than New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago and Houston.

To put that in perspective, the city of Los Angeles is 468.7 square miles.

On the east coast, the fire is massively bigger than the entire five boroughs of New York City. Those five boroughs encompass 304 square miles.

Fire crews are not expected to contain the Mendocino Complex Fires until September.

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