Awatchfire

San Luis Obispo County, California

Brava Fire

Burning 0.7 miles north-west of Pismo Beach and 3.5 miles south-east of Avila Beach, since Sunday 30 August.

Map of California. The Brava Fire burns 239 miles from Sacramento, and 239 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 239 miles from Sacramento.

10

acres burned so far

45

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Brava Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1099 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1099 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Brava 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

1099hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:30pm on Sunday, local time.

95% less

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

0.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Pismo Beach 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 Avila Beach is 3.3 miles, None in the last day.

0.3miles

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

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground seven times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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 9.7 miles from the fire: 69°F, air at 21% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-47 fire

The record here begins at 1:44pm on 30 Aug and runs to 2:29pm on 30 Aug — 1 hours, 4 readings of heat. The fire is on day 47, so the first 46 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 Brava Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 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

Sun 1:00pmSun 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 1 day of record

  1. Map for Sun 30 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun30 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 4 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:44pm to 2:29pm
    • Spread 0.3 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. Sunday 30 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 30 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Sunday 30 August

    Grew to 20 acres

    20 ac

  4. Sunday 30 August

    Grew to 25 acres

    25 ac

  5. Sunday 30 August

    Revised to 10 acres

    10 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 10 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1099 hours, and the record still lists it as active.