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.
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Tuesday 21 April
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
181
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 1:06pm today
The Assist/Krn/Redrock Fire is on the interagency wildfire record 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.
181 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 21 April at 3:30pm local time.
35.308, -117.992lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 17.9 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 42% humidity, a 15 mph wind out of the south.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Neuralia Fire started on Wednesday 13 May, 5.0 miles south, and has reached 1,196 acres with 25 people assigned. Iron Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 6.1 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Jawbone 1 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 6.1 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Mtz/Kern/47A Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 6.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Dove Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 8.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Fiddler Fire started on Thursday 30 July, 12.2 miles 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 three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 21 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.