Burning 4.7 miles south of Rosamond and 7.9 miles north-west of Lancaster, since Saturday 5 September.
The fire sits 316 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
39
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Calvin Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 955 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 955 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
955hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:15pm on Saturday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
4.3miles
is how close the heat has come to Rosamond 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 Lancaster is 8.0 miles, None in the last day.
0.7miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Eight other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-315760 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 4.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-326073 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 0.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-329953 Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 3.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339691 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 3.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-339983 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 3.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-341411 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 0.7 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-351107 Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 3.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-366376 Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 4.8 miles south-west, 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 thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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 10.6 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 36% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-west.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-41 fire
The record here begins at 2:16pm on 5 Sep and runs to 2:16pm on 5 Sep — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 41, so the first 40 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.
The whole record, 7 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 2:00pmSat 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
Sat5 Seplatest
First readings
2 heat readings
Heat from 2:16pm to 2:16pm
Spread 0.7 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.
Saturday 5 September
First reported
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 955 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
