Burning 5.2 miles south-east of Santa Clarita and 6.8 miles north of San Fernando, since Sunday 11 October.
The fire sits 335 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
3
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Bike Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 91 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 91 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
91hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:55pm on Sunday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
4.0miles
is how close the heat has come to Santa Clarita at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to San Fernando is 6.4 miles, None in the last day.
1.2miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Nine other fires are burning inside the same view. Cate Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 3.1 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Emily Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 3.8 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hanger Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 4.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-355179 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 3.0 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-361784 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 2.4 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-364345 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 3.3 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lee Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 4.5 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Ophellia Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 4.8 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Victor Fire started on Saturday 15 August, 2.3 miles south-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.
One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Bouquet Fire 12.2 miles north at 1,048 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground six times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 2.2 miles from the fire: 59°F, air at 22% humidity, a 16 mph wind out of the north.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-5 fire
The record here begins at 1:38pm on 11 Oct and runs to 1:57pm on 11 Oct — 0 hours, 26 readings of heat. The fire is on day 5, so the first 4 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 7 frames at
1 hour
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Hour by hour local time
Sun 1:00pmSun 1:00pm
Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the
fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say
anything, so the hours are shown instead.
Day by day 1 day of record
Sun11 Octlatest
First readings
26 heat readings
Heat from 1:38pm to 1:57pm
Spread 1.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
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.
Sunday 11 October
First reported
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 91 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
