The Park Fire continues to rage in Tehama County and Lassen National Forest, but containment of the fire is becoming increasingly successful and firefighters are increasingly able to slow the spread of the fire on its northeast front.

The Park Fire was reportedly sparked by an intoxicated man who pushed a burning Toyota Yaris into a ravine on the afternoon of July 24. It is now the fourth-largest wildfire in state history and has burned 429,300 acres of land as of Tuesday morning. The fire still needs to destroy over 30,000 acres of land to overtake the next largest fire, the Mendocino Complex Fire of 2018, and it may not achieve that if containment efforts by the roughly 5,600 firefighters continue to be successful.

The northeast arm of the fire, burning around Morgan Mountain and in the community of Mill Creek, remains one of the few active parts of the fire. Mill Creek borders an area of ​​Lassen National Forest that previously burned in the 2021 Dixie Fire.

In an update, Cal Fire explains, “The fire is burning primarily in wood and dead and fallen vegetation.” In total, the Park Fire has burned 113,736 acres of Lassen National Forest, some of which had burned before, but many of which had not.

As the fire enters its fourth week, damage from the massive fire continues to be assessed, but the extent of the damage is becoming increasingly clear.

A map that is constantly updated shows where most of the buildings were destroyed by the fire. According to the evaluation so far, a total of 637 buildings were destroyed, including residential buildings, commercial buildings and smaller buildings.

The map shows undamaged buildings in black and destroyed buildings in red. The interactive map can be found here.

The greatest damage was concentrated in Butte County, where the fire raged in the first few days, north of Chico, east of Sugarloaf Mountain. This includes the community of Cohasset, where many houses were saved – while the houses in the forest east of Cohasset were destroyed.

Other concentrations of destruction occurred in the town of Campbellville and on the northern front of the fire, near the communities of Lyman Springs and Paynes Creek. It appears that the majority of structures in and around Mill Creek, where the fire is currently raging, have been spared by the efforts of firefighters.

Evacuation orders remain in effect for portions of Tehama and Plumas counties near the active fire areas. You can find them here.

So far, no fatalities have been attributed to the park fire.

The fire is now 39 percent contained, but Cal Fire warns that smoldering areas beneath layers of ash could flare up again if weather conditions worsen.

Previously: Arsonist charged in park; investigators believe he was drunk at the time the fire broke out