Awatchfire

Fresno County, California

Arrow Creek Fire

Burning 17.3 miles west of Independence and 23.9 miles south-west of Big Pine, since Saturday 22 August.

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

4

acres burned so far

6

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:12pm today

The Arrow Creek Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 133 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 133 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Arrow Creek 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

133hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:55am on Sunday, local time.

0readings

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

17.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Independence at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Big Pine is 23.8 miles, None in the last day.

0.1miles

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 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 56 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 9.4 miles from the fire: 78°F, air at 46% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-7 fire

The record here begins at 2:56am on 23 Aug and runs to 2:56am on 23 Aug — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 7, so the first 6 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. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Arrow Creek Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Sun 2:00amSun 2:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun23 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:56am to 2:56am
    • Spread 0.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 4 now. Nothing has looked at it for 133 hours, and the record still lists it as active.