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.
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Monday 26 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
1
hour burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 4:50pm today
The Bonsall 2 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in San Diego 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.
1 hour
on record — first written down on Monday 26 October at 3:35pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.287, -117.150lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 5.7 miles from the fire: 84°F, air at 37% humidity, a 13 mph wind out of the east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Monserate 2 Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 2.7 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Laketree Fire started on Friday 16 October, 4.5 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Brengle Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 6.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Bachelor Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 6.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mission 5 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 7.2 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Jesmond Fire started on Friday 4 September, 7.8 miles south, 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 nine times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 148 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.