Kern County, California
Burning 4.0 miles north of Lebec and 6.2 miles north of Frazier Park, since Wednesday 5 August.
902
acres burned so far — about 1 square miles
71
days burning so far
100%
of the perimeter held
The official record as of 9:09am 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.
71 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.
Conditions measured 8.3 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 23% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the north-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Grapevine Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 1.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Rose Fire started on Monday 31 August, 2.3 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Carlos Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 5.4 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Trail Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 5.6 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Lac-341462 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 7.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Carter Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 7.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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.
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.
Wednesday 5 August
First reported
Sunday 23 August
902 acres on record — 100% contained, 55 personnel assigned
902 ac · 100% held · 55 crew