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.
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Sunday 3 May
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
185
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 11:31am today
The Columbus Fire is on the interagency wildfire record 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.
185 days
on record — first written down on Sunday 3 May at 2:48pm local time.
35.587, -118.488lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 1.2 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 91% humidity, a 13 mph wind out of the west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. River Fire started on Friday 28 August, 0.9 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Rocky Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 1.1 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Tice Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 2.4 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hogye Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.0 miles north, and has reached 1 acres. Pearl Fire started on Sunday 31 May, 3.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Auxiliary Fire started on Wednesday 5 August, 4.2 miles north, 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 196 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.