Awatchfire

Kern County, California

Buzzard Fire

Burning 4.0 miles north of Lebec and 6.2 miles north of Frazier Park, since Wednesday 5 August.

Map of California. The Buzzard Fire burns 290 miles from Sacramento, and 290 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 290 miles from Sacramento.

902

acres burned so far — about 1 square miles

23

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The Buzzard Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 902 acres in Kern 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

55people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

23 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 5 August at 7:51am local time.

Type 4 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

34.900, -118.923lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.