Awatchfire

Ventura County, California

Cornell Fire

Burning 1.4 miles south-west of Santa Paula and 5.3 miles north-east of Saticoy, since Thursday 15 October.

Map of California. The Cornell Fire burns 321 miles from Sacramento, and 321 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 321 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

4

hours burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:37pm today

The Cornell Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 3 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Cornell Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

3hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:25pm on Thursday, local time.

1readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

1.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Santa Paula at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 1.5 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Saticoy is 5.3 miles, 5.3 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

0.3miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground eight times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 31 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 8.2 miles from the fire: 81°F, air at 13% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 1:25pm on 15 Oct and runs to 1:25pm on 15 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Cornell Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Thu 1:00pmThu 1:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:25pm to 1:25pm
    • Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Thursday 15 October

    First reported

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.