Awatchfire

Los Angeles County, California

Cherry Fire

Burning 11.6 miles north of Hasley Canyon and 12.7 miles north-west of Castaic, since Thursday 26 February.

Map of California. The Cherry Fire burns 311 miles from Sacramento, and 311 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 311 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

230

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Cherry Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Los Angeles 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.

230 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 26 February at 3:03pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.637, -118.743lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.7 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 18% humidity, a 14 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Vista Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Violin Fire started on Wednesday 22 April, 4.5 miles south-east, and has reached 1 acres. Club Fire started on Friday 31 July, 5.6 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Lac-371632 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 5.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Gorman Fire started on Monday 8 June, 5.6 miles south-east, and has reached 1 acres. Lac-357251 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 5.6 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 five 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 26 February

    First reported

  2. Monday 21 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac