Awatchfire

Kern County, California

Alper Fire

Burning 3.8 miles north-east of North Edwards and 7.2 miles north-west of Boron, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of California. The Alper Fire burns 316 miles from Sacramento, and 316 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 316 miles from Sacramento.

105

acres burned so far

5

days burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The Alper Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 105 acres in Kern 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.

5 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 23 August at 4:43pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

35.086, -117.763lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.