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.
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Saturday 12 September
First reported
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Saturday 12 September
1 acres on record
1 ac
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Saturday 12 September
Grew to 1 acres
1 ac