Awatchfire

Fresno County, California

Big Fire

Burning 4.2 miles north-east of Fort Washington and 4.2 miles south of Friant, since Friday 9 October.

Map of California. The Big Fire burns 149 miles from Sacramento, and 149 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 149 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

6

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Big Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Fresno 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 Friday 9 October at 12:20am local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.923, -119.709lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.1 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 42% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Flemming Ranch Access Friant Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 4.6 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Vineyard Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 5.5 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Sherri Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 5.7 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Thorne Fire started on Friday 11 September, 9.6 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Madsen Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 10.7 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mill Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 11.5 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 once 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.

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. Friday 9 October

    First reported

  2. Friday 9 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac