Awatchfire

San Diego County, California

5-1 Fire

Burning 6.3 miles north-east of Descanso and 8.3 miles south of Julian, since Thursday 24 September.

Map of California. The 5-1 Fire burns 475 miles from Sacramento, and 475 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 475 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

20

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The 5-1 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in San Diego County, California. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

20 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 24 September at 12:14pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

32.953, -116.586lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.2 miles from the fire: 64°F, air at 26% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Burrell Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 6.2 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Vf/Drd Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 9.1 miles south-west, and has reached 1 acres. Huecos Fire started on Sunday 9 August, 9.6 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Banner 2 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 9.9 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Sdu/Banner 2 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 9.9 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Sunrise Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 10.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground eight times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.

How the record has moved

Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.

  1. Thursday 24 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 24 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac