Name: Wildfire in California, June 24 to 30, 2007
Start: 2007-06-24T13:00
End: 2007-06-30T23:59
Location: California

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 3
Property damage: $500 million
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS REV wrote it up.

High winds helped to spread the Angora wildfire across 3,100 acres south of Lake Tahoe.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 24, 2:15 AM PST, 10 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:15 AM PST, 10 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
315 AM PDT SUN JUN 24 2007

.SHORT TERM...
I MADE MINOR TEMPERATURE TWEAKS TO MAINTAIN DAY TODAY CONSISTENCY. I
ALSO ADDED RIDGE GUSTS THROUGH THIS EVENING...AS SIERRA RIDGES ARE
GUSTING BETWEEN 45-60 MPH CURRENTLY AND SHOULD CONTINUE AS THE UPPER
TROUGH AXIS MOVES THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.

ONE MORE BREEZY DAY FOR THE AREA AS THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS OFF THE
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST MOVES INLAND THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MONDAY...HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FOR MUCH LIGHTER WINDS AND SEASONABLE
TEMPERATURES.

TUESDAY...TEMPERATURES REBOUND TO AROUND 5 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AS
EASTERLY FLOW ABATES AND THE THERMAL TROUGH RETURNS TO EXTREME
WESTERN NEVADA IN THE AFTERNOON. MODELS INDICATE A VERY WEAK
DISTURBANCE APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTHWEST IN THE AFTERNOON...BUT
PROGS DO NOT INDICATE SUFFICIENT FORCING FOR THUNDERSTORMS AT THIS
TIME. HOWEVER...SCATTERED CUMULUS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP OVER FAR
NORTHERN LASSEN/WASHOE COUNTIES AND OVER MONO COUNTY WITH LIFTED
INDEXES 0-1C AND MODIFIED TOTAL TOTALS OF 25-27C. THE GFS SUPPORTS
THE CUMULUS DEVELOPMENT IDEA FURTHER WITH A MODEST 500 MB HUMIDITY
RESPONSE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. UPCOMING MODEL RUNS SHOULD BE WATCHED
FOR A MORE ROBUST CONVECTIVE RESPONSE. SNYDER

.LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...
A VERY PERSISTENT UPPER LOW WILL BE CENTERED NEAR 50N/135W THROUGH
THE PERIOD. THERE IS VERY GOOD AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GFS AND ECMWF
WITH LOCATION AND STRENGTH OF THE LOW AND GFS ENSEMBLE CHARTS ARE
ALSO CONSISTENT. THE CANADIAN MODEL SHOWS A SIMILAR SOLUTION EARLY
ON THEN OPENS THE LOW UP BY FRIDAY OR SATURDAY. THE RESULTING
WEATHER IN THE EASTERN SIERRA AND WESTERN NV WILL CONSIST OF A
SOUTHWEST FLOW WITH BREEZY CONDITIONS AT TIMES AND DAYTIME
TEMPERATURES NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW SEASONAL NORMALS. TIMING OF
PRECIP FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD WITH BEST CHANCES
OCCURRING FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY AS A STRONGER SHORT WAVE MOVES
ACROSS NORTHERN CA AND NORTHWEST NV. THE PRECIP LOOKS AS IF IT WILL
STAY WELL NORTH OF I-80...AFFECTING MAINLY NORTHERN LASSEN AND
WASHOE COUNTIES. RC
&&

.AVIATION...
VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY. SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS
WITH GUSTS UP TO 30KT ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN NV AND
EASTERN CA BETWEEN 22Z-04Z...PRIMARILY EAST AND SOUTH OF KRNO. RC
&&

.FIRE WEATHER...
RED FLAG WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR ZONES 450...453...459 AND 273
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WINDS WILL BE GUSTING INTO THE 30 MPH OR
HIGHER RANGE AND COMBINED WITH LOW HUMIDITIES WILL ONCE AGAIN CREATE
CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. WINDS AND HUMIDITY IN ZONE 272
ALSO LOOK TO BE NEAR CRITICAL VALUES AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. WILL
MONITOR CONDITIONS THERE AND CONSIDER ADDING THAT ZONE TO THE
WARNING LATER THIS MORNING IF NEEDED. MUCH LIGHTER WINDS AND
SLIGHTLY HIGHER HUMIDITY ON MONDAY WILL PUT AN END TO THE RECENT
STRING OF RED FLAG DAYS. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE
EASTERN PACIFIC WILL BRING INCREASING WINDS TO THE AREA LATER THIS
COMING WEEK...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER
CONDITIONS TO REDEVELOP. RC
&&

.REV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NV...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM PDT SUNDAY FOR NVZ450-453-459.

CA...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM PDT SUNDAY FOR CAZ273.
&&

HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, Greater Lake Tahoe Area

When: June 24, 1:00 PM PST to June 30, 11:59 PM PST
Where: Greater Lake Tahoe Area forecast zone
Injuries: 3 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $500 million
Reported by: Newspaper
Coordinates: 38.935, -120.458 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

The human-caused Angora wildfire started on June 24th and continued to burn through the end of June. Strong winds gusting to 40 mph caused the wildfire to spread across 3,100 acres south of Lake Tahoe. A total of 254 houses and over 60 commercial structures were destroyed.

What these are

Wildfire: A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 38182.