Awatchfire

Kern County, California

College Fire

Burning 3.4 miles south-east of Ridgecrest Heights and 4.6 miles south of Ridgecrest, since Saturday 4 July.

Map of California. The College Fire burns 295 miles from Sacramento, and 295 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 295 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

103

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 2:20am today

The College Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

103 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 4 July at 2:34am local time, starting at 0 acres.

35.562, -117.670lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.0 miles from the fire: 66°F, air at 23% humidity, a 17 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Searles Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 5.6 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Veg/44A Fire started on Saturday 23 May, 6.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Krn/Felspar Fire started on Monday 11 May, 7.6 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Krn/44A Fire started on Wednesday 29 April, 12.0 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Fiddler Fire started on Thursday 30 July, 14.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Short Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 14.9 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.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Saturday 4 July

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 9 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac