Retreat Fire 0.0000, -0.0000

Three main fuel types exist: sage/grass, oak/ grass, mixed conifer and sub alpine fir forests. Sage/grass fuels at the 4200-foot elevation and below are mostly cured and can carry active fire spread. At higher elevations sage and grass are partially cured and burn in isolated patches. Timber litter above 5000-foot elevation is dry and contributing to active fire spread with group torching.

ERCs and BI's continue to show signs of lowering with the influx of moister air and a rain event. Very little active fire was observed, most activity is smoldering and creeping in deep duff layers. In the lower elevations unburned islands continue to be of concern.

12 hours: Heavy fuels are likely to continue smoldering as they slowly burn down. Higher daytime relative humidity continue.

Showers and thunderstorms on Saturday night led to gusts to 45 to 60 mph both on the fire and at base camp, along with wetting to heavy rains from 1900 Saturday night until 0100 Sunday. Rainfall was mostly 0.10 to 0.35 of an inch storm total, but some locations received more on the order of 0.75 of an inch. Humidity recovery of 85+ percent lowered by afternoon in the dry air behind the Saturday night front to 28 to 38 percent. Temperatures were cooler, 65 to 77. Light showers during the late afternoon and evening on the Cascade crest were possible. Mostly cloudy skies will partially clear on Monday, with afternoon highs 68 to 80 and afternoon humidity of 25 to 35 percent. Evening wind will be the strongest wind, northwest with gusts to 23 mph.