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Mono County, California

Blind Fire

Burning 5.1 miles west of Benton and 19.0 miles north of Sunny Slopes, since Saturday 26 September.

Map of California. The Blind Fire burns 165 miles from Sacramento, and 165 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 165 miles from Sacramento.

43

acres burned so far

18

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Blind Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 43 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.

18 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 26 September at 2:42pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.834, -118.580lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.6 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. Black Fire started on Friday 11 September, 1.2 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Trafton Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 5.3 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. Saturday 26 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 26 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Sunday 27 September

    Grew to 43 acres

    43 ac