Awatchfire

San Diego County, California

Border 14 Fire

Burning 10.1 miles south of Jamul and 10.7 miles east of Chula Vista, since Sunday 18 October.

Map of California. The Border 14 Fire burns 489 miles from Sacramento, and 489 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 489 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

1

hour burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 4:42pm today

The Border 14 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres 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.

42 minutes

on record — first written down on Sunday 18 October at 4:00pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

32.575, -116.842lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.5 miles from the fire: 80°F, air at 22% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Harvest 2 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 6.1 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Mtz/Sdu/Border 9 Fire started on Friday 24 July, 8.9 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Diamond Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 10.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Mutual Aid/Tnr Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 11.8 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Saturn 2 Fire started on Tuesday 19 May, 14.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Egger Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 14.5 miles west, and has reached 1 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 9 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.

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. Sunday 18 October

    First reported

  2. Sunday 18 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac