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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Wednesday 2 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
42
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Avenue Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Calaveras 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.
42 days
on record — first written down on Wednesday 2 September at 5:04pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
38.229, -120.541lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 12.3 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 22% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the south-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Baker Fire started on Friday 11 September, 3.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Victory Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 7.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. House Fire started on Monday 28 September, 10.0 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Oro Fire started on Friday 4 September, 12.4 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Club Fire started on Friday 4 September, 12.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Dutch Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 13.2 miles north-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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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.