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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Thursday 15 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
6
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 6:17pm today
The Bankhead Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in San Diego 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.
6 days
on record — first written down on Thursday 15 October at 9:55am local time, starting at 0 acres.
32.651, -116.244lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 8.9 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 53% humidity, a 18 mph wind out of the south-west.
Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Rocky Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 1.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Border 13 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 3.0 miles south, and has reached 6 acres. Crestwood 2 Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 7.7 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lost Fire started on Sunday 22 March, 8.0 miles north-west, 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 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 29 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.