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Mariposa County, California

Carleton Fire

Burning 2.9 miles north-west of Bootjack and 3.2 miles south of Midpines, since Wednesday 16 September.

Map of California. The Carleton Fire burns 112 miles from Sacramento, and 112 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 112 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

28

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Carleton Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Mariposa 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.

28 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 16 September at 6:52pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.510, -119.910lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.5 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 35% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Colorado Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 4.1 miles north-west, and has reached 233 acres. Boyer Fire started on Monday 28 September, 4.2 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Tiptop Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 5.8 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Bar Fire started on Monday 28 September, 5.9 miles south-west, and has reached 3 acres. Sherlock Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 6.1 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Kemble Fire started on Monday 31 August, 9.7 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. 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.

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. Wednesday 16 September

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 16 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac