Awatchfire

Tulare County, California

Big Five Fire

Burning 8.1 miles east of Silver City and 20.9 miles north of Sequoia Crest, since Tuesday 22 September.

Map of California. The Big Five Fire burns 218 miles from Sacramento, and 218 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 218 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

22

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Big Five Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Tulare 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.

22 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 22 September at 12:54pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.472, -118.504lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.2 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 25% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Corner Creek Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 9.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Cahoon Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 12.1 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Eden Creek Fire started 217 minutes before this one, 13.4 miles 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.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Tuesday 22 September

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 23 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac