Cat Fire

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Cat Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 3 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.

Conditions measured 19.7 miles from the fire: 65°F, air at 20% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Petrol Fire started on Friday 4 September, 5.1 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Hudson Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 5.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Woods Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 5.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Gardner Fire started on Sunday 5 July, 6.3 miles north, and has reached 1 acres. North Fire started on Monday 13 July, 8.4 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Ca-Krn Crocker Fire started on Friday 24 July, 15.5 miles north-west, 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 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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.