Thanks to weather conditions on Tuesday, the gigantic wildfires in the western part of the United States have been temporarily contained, however, property losses have increased across California and Oregon. 

As of early Tuesday, the Dixie Fire had scorched more than 325 square miles but was contained 23%. More than 10,000 homes were threatened in Plumas and Butte counties, a region about 175 miles northeast of San Francisco, according to Associated Press reports.

The Dixie Fire, burning mostly on federal land, is among dozens of large blazes burning in the US.

Meanwhile, according to incident meteorologist Julia Ruthford, an aversion layer has trapped the smoke over much of the fire, and the shade helped maintain lower temperatures and keep humidity high.

Smokey conditions were predicted to persist until Tuesday. Moisture from the monsoon was pouring down on the region, but only light rains were expected on the fire. However, later in the week, the weather is expected to warm up and become drier.

But the authorities were hopeful that cool temperatures, increased humidity and isolated showers will help in continuing to make progress against the nation’s largest wildfire, the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon.

It was 53% contained after scorching 640 square miles (1,657 square kilometres) of remote land.

“The mild weather will have a short-term calming effect on the fire behaviour. But due to the extremely dry conditions and fuels, as the week progresses and temperatures rise, aggressive fire behaviour is likely to quickly rebound,” the Tuesday morning situation report stated.

Meanwhile, coming to the damages caused by the wildfires, assessment teams have so far tallied 36 structures destroyed and seven damaged in Indian Falls, said Nick Truax, an incident commander for the massive Dixie Fire in the mountains of Northern California, according to AP inputs.

But the assessments are still just about half complete, Truax said. The ability to safely tally damage depends on fire activity.