The Kincade Fire has burned more than 10,000 acres since starting on Wednesday night. The raging wildfire has forced evacuation of hundreds of homes as Sonoma County officials said “the blaze burns uncontrollably”.
Approximately 1,700 residents in more than 550 homes are under mandatory evacuations orders in the county.
Among the communities under mandatory evacuation order was the entirety of Geyserville.
The community is located about 80 miles north of San Francisco and has approximately 850 residents.
The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office told residents on Thursday morning to leave since the fire crossed Highway 128, heading west.
READ MORE: California earthquake: San Fran hit by 4.5 quake- Threat of BIG quake?
Smoke from the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County will likely impact the San Francisco Bay tomorrow, according to the National Weather Service.
The agency tweeted: “Heads Up, Bay Area! Although the #KincadeFire isn’t causing smoke issues over the Bay Area today, shifting winds tomorrow will likely cause the smoke to be directly over much of the region. Impacts to SFO may begin as early as 11am Friday.”
According to a new study published in this week’s journal Earth’s Future climate change cause the increase in size of fires occurring across California in the last 50 years.
Since the early 1970s, California wildfires have increased in size by eight times, the study says, and the annual burned area has grown by nearly 500 percent.
The authors of the paper wrote: “Human-caused warming has already significantly enhanced wildfire activity in California, particularly in the forests of the Sierra Nevada and North Coast, and will likely continue to do so in the coming decades.”