Awatchfire

Monterey County, California

Aromas Fire

Burning 1.6 miles south-west of Aromas and 3.3 miles north of Prunedale, since Sunday 18 October.

Map of California. The Aromas Fire burns 118 miles from Sacramento, and 118 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 118 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

1

hour burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 5:47pm today

The Aromas Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Monterey 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.

1 hour

on record — first written down on Sunday 18 October at 4:35pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.860, -121.653lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 12.3 miles from the fire: 76°F, air at 42% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south-east.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Peak Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 10.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Old Stage Rd / Williams Rd Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 12.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Williams Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 12.0 miles south, 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 seven times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 10 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. Sunday 18 October

    First reported

  2. Sunday 18 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac