Mudslides, not wildfires, are now the biggest worry in Southern California communities where a week of fires has burned more than 100 homes and scorched 40,000 acres.

"I'm really concerned with the erosion," James Lee Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Monday.Communities hope to quickly replant vegetation on scarred hillsides in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, but it may come too late to head off mudslides.

Rainstorms were expected to move into Southern California on Tuesday.

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The largest fire still out of control was in Northern California's scenic Big Sur region. The 4,430-acre blaze in Los Padres National Forest was 55 percent contained Monday. Full containment was predicted by Thursday.

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