Evacuations were ordered in the first hour of a fire Sunday afternoon in Clearlake.
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The Boyles Fire was reported around 2 p.m. near Boyles and 8th avenues, at the city’s south end.
Before 4 p.m., the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection called it “a fast-growing fire burning in heavy brush” and estimated the size at 76 acres. About 30 structures were involved, the agency said, and the evacuation order affected about 4,000 residents.
The map above shows the approximate perimeter as a black line and the evacuation area in red.
For updates and more details of the evacuation, see the Genasys Protect map or the X feed of CalFire’s Sonoma-Lake-Napa unit.
The fire is near the area burned by the August 2021 Cache Fire, which also forced evacuations in the city.
