Awatchfire

Riverside County, California

Copper Fire

Burning 1.8 miles south-east of Home Gardens and 1.9 miles north-east of El Cerrito, since Saturday 12 September.

Map of California. The Copper Fire burns 394 miles from Sacramento, and 394 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 394 miles from Sacramento.

1

acres burned so far

32

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Copper Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1 acres in Riverside 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.

32 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 12 September at 9:38am local time, starting at 0 acres.

33.855, -117.497lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.9 miles from the fire: 75°F, air at 20% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Eagle Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 0.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Temescal Canyon Rd / Dos Lagos Dr Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 3.3 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Citrus Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 4.3 miles north-east, and has reached 15 acres. Temescal Canyon Rd Ofrp / Temescal Canyon Rd Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 5.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Thorn Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 5.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Holmes Fire started on Friday 9 October, 8.3 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 moderate between 1:10pm 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. Saturday 12 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 12 September

    1 acres on record

    1 ac
  3. Saturday 12 September

    Grew to 1 acres

    1 ac