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Mono County, California

Black Fire

Burning 4.0 miles west of Benton and 18.8 miles north of Sunny Slopes, since Friday 11 September.

Map of California. The Black Fire burns 166 miles from Sacramento, and 166 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 166 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

33

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Black Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Mono 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.

33 days

on record — first written down on Friday 11 September at 9:28am local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.826, -118.560lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.6 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 23% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the north-west.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Blind Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 1.2 miles north-west, and has reached 43 acres. Trafton Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 5.7 miles north, 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. Friday 11 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 11 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac