{"id":399331,"date":"2026-07-15T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399331\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:39:50","slug":"map-elephant-fire-becomes-californias-second-biggest-of-the-year-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399331\/","title":{"rendered":"Map: Elephant Fire becomes California\u2019s second biggest of the year \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wildfire that started Saturday has become California\u2019s second largest of the season.<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday afternoon, the Elephant Fire had burned 15,526 acres (24 square miles) about 25 miles north of Truckee, said fire managers for the Tahoe National Forest. It was 42% contained. The approximate perimeter is shown as a black line on the map above.<\/p>\n

An evacuation order at Lassen County\u2019s south end that had been in place for 24 hours was lifted around 5 p.m. Monday; the fire was burning in Plumas and Sierra counties as well. Highways 70, 49 and 395 remained open in the fire area.<\/p>\n

It is the biggest fire currently burning in California and for the season ranks behind only May\u2019s Santa Rosa Island Fire<\/a>, said the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.<\/p>\n

Elephant started Saturday afternoon along Highway 49 and moved east into the scar of the Loyalton Fire<\/a>, which burned 47,029 acres in 2020. It is named for Elephant\u2019s Head, a 6,600-foot mountain near the ignition site.<\/p>\n

For updates and details of evacuation warning zones, see the Genasys Protect map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Evacuation warnings were also in effect Monday for:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Loomis Fire, 656 acres, northwest Lassen County.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Twain Fire, 275 acres, north of Quincy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ledson Fire, 13 acres, east of Santa Rosa.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Summit Fire, 2,690 acres, near Wrightwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildfire that started Saturday has become California\u2019s second largest of the season. As of Tuesday afternoon, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9502,9,8,121361,1531,138,1533,181,100,182,535],"class_list":["post-399331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-fires","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-wildfire-maps","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-keywee","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-pm-report","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}