Pickett Fire Continues Burning Mostly In Glass Fire Burn Scar, Now 17% Contained

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/26/pickett-fire-continues-burning-mostly-in-glass-fire-burn-scar/The growth of the wildfire burning northeast of Calistoga was slowed overnight on Monday, thanks to the marine layer moving inland, and Cal Fire said they had reached 17% containment as of Tuesday morning. These last few days have been something of a repeat of September 2020 for residents of Calistoga and the nearby communities of Angwin and Pope Valley, as a new wildfire has burned through much of the burn scar of the Glass Fire. Thankfully, conditions have kept this fire, the Pickett Fire, more contained than that fire five years ago, which led to the evacuation of the entire city of Calistoga, spread west through canyons over to the Sonoma Valley, and bured