Awatchfire

Kern County, California

Auxiliary Fire

Burning 1.3 miles north-east of Lake Isabella and 3.2 miles west of Mountain Mesa, since Wednesday 5 August.

Map of California. The Auxiliary Fire burns 261 miles from Sacramento, and 261 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 261 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

70

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Auxiliary Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 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.

70 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 5 August at 4:00pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

35.645, -118.462lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.1 miles from the fire: 44°F, air at 53% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Yankee Fire started on Thursday 30 April, 1.6 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Hogye Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 2.8 miles south-west, and has reached 1 acres. Tice Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Rocky Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 4.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. River Fire started on Friday 28 August, 4.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Cyrus Fire started on Friday 9 October, 4.5 miles north-east, and has reached 543 acres with 12 people assigned. 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 137 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. Wednesday 5 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac