The current mandatory evacuation zone covers 241 square miles.

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The farthest city, Kawamata, is nearly 30 miles from FDI, which means the evacuation area could swell to 1, 413 square miles.

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The lava flooded a two-hundred-and-fifty-square-mile area, requiring the evacuation of two hundred thousand people.

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Erratic wind spread the blaze in the Angeles National Forest to nearly 41 square miles early Sunday, triggering the evacuation of nearly 1, 000 homes in Lake Hughes and Lake Elizabeth, officials said.

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