Madera County, California
Burning 6.9 miles east of Fish Camp and 8.5 miles south-east of Wawona, since Monday 28 September.
0
acres burned so far
16
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Chief Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Madera 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.
16 days
on record — first written down on Monday 28 September at 8:37pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
37.471, -119.515lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 5.0 miles from the fire: 57°F, air at 22% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Globe Fire started on Monday 24 August, 5.2 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Public Smoking Dumpster Goat Mdw Sno Play Area Fire started on Friday 26 June, 6.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Kamook Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 7.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Dome Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 8.6 miles north-west, and has reached 6,788 acres with 596 people assigned. Allen Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 8.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Norby Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 8.7 miles south, 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 two 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.
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.
Monday 28 September
First reported
Tuesday 29 September
0 acres on record
0 ac