Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Bouquet Fire

Burning 3.8 miles south of Green Valley and 6.2 miles north-west of Agua Dulce, since Saturday 3 October.

Map of California. The Bouquet Fire burns 325 miles from Sacramento, and 325 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 325 miles from Sacramento.

1,048

acres burned so far — about 2 square miles

12

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 2:20am today

The Bouquet Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 276 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 276 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Bouquet Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

276hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:10pm on Sunday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

3.1miles

is how close the heat has come to Green Valley 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 Agua Dulce is 5.9 miles, None in the last day.

2.4miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Bert Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 4.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 10 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 5.5 miles from the fire: 65°F, air at 27% humidity, a 14 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-14 fire

The record here begins at 2:48pm on 3 Oct and runs to 2:10pm on 4 Oct — 23 hours, 21 readings of heat. The fire is on day 14, so the first 12 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.

Animated map of the Bouquet Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 31 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

Sat 2:00pmSun 2:00pm

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 2 days of record

  1. Map for Sat 3 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat3 Oct

    First readings

    • 18 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 2:48pm to 9:04pm
    • Spread 2.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon and night
  2. Map for Sun 4 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun4 Octlatest

    Cooling off

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 99% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:34pm to 2:10pm
    • Spread 1.4 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.

  1. Saturday 3 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 3 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Saturday 3 October

    Grew to 1,000 acres — containment 0%, 288 personnel

    1,000 ac · 0% held · 288 crew

  4. Saturday 3 October

    Revised to 0 acres

    0 ac · 0% held · 288 crew

  5. Sunday 4 October

    Grew to 1,048 acres — containment 40%

    1,048 ac · 40% held · 288 crew

  6. Sunday 4 October

    Revised to 0 acres

    0 ac · 40% held · 288 crew

  7. Monday 5 October

    Grew to 1,048 acres — containment 63%, 215 personnel

    1,048 ac · 63% held · 215 crew

  8. Tuesday 6 October

    Containment 71% — 171 personnel

    1,048 ac · 71% held · 171 crew

  9. Wednesday 7 October

    Containment 83% — 131 personnel

    1,048 ac · 83% held · 131 crew

  10. Saturday 10 October

    Containment 93% — 146 personnel

    1,048 ac · 93% held · 146 crew

  11. Monday 12 October

    Containment 100% — 46 personnel

    1,048 ac · 100% held · 46 crew

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 46 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 1,048 now. Nothing has looked at it for 276 hours, and the record still lists it as active.