Awatchfire

Tulare County, California

Alpaugh Fire

Burning 0.6 miles south-west of Farmersville and 2.9 miles north of Hypericum, since Wednesday 19 August.

Map of California. The Alpaugh Fire burns 200 miles from Sacramento, and 200 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 200 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

56

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Alpaugh Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 19 hours ago.

No fresh look at this fire for 19 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Alpaugh Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

19hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:45pm on Wednesday, local time.

1readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

0.9miles

is how close the heat has come to Farmersville at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 0.9 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Hypericum is 4.2 miles, 4.2 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

1.4miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 19.8 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 34% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-58 fire

The record here begins at 1:53pm on 6 Oct and runs to 1:46pm on 14 Oct — 192 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 58, so the first 56 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen.

Animated map of the Alpaugh Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 67 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 2 days of record

  1. Map for Tue 6 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue6 Oct

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 1:53pm to 1:53pm
    • Spread 1.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Wed 14 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed14 Octlatest

    The fiercest day

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.3 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:46pm to 1:46pm
    • Spread 1.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Wednesday 19 August

    First reported

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 19 hours, and the record still lists it as active.