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Tulare County, California

Cahoon Fire

Burning 6.6 miles south of Silver City and 11.8 miles south-east of Three Rivers, since Thursday 24 September.

Map of California. The Cahoon Fire burns 215 miles from Sacramento, and 215 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 215 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

20

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Cahoon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Tulare 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.

20 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 24 September at 11:06am local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.374, -118.684lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.0 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 25% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Corner Creek Fire started 5 minutes after this one, 2.5 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Eden Creek Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 4.1 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Vega Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 11.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Durango Fire started on Monday 5 October, 11.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Big Five Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 12.1 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Lewis Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 15.1 miles south-east, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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. Thursday 24 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 24 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac