Awatchfire

Tuolumne County, California

Chain Fire

Burning 8.3 miles south-east of Strawberry and 9.8 miles east of Cold Springs, since Wednesday 7 October.

Map of California. The Chain Fire burns 91 miles from Sacramento, and 91 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 91 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

7

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Chain Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Tuolumne 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.

7 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 7 October at 11:48am local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.143, -119.875lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.0 miles from the fire: 43°F, air at 37% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lake Fire started on Friday 2 October, 1.6 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Groundhog Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Bear Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 2.1 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Paw Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 2.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Piute Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 3.8 miles east, and has reached 52 acres. Deer Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 6.1 miles 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 moderate 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 7 October

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 7 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac