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Riverside County, California

Cowbell Fire

Burning 1.4 miles east of Idyllwild-Pine Cove and 2.0 miles north-east of Mountain Center, since Saturday 10 October.

Map of California. The Cowbell Fire burns 426 miles from Sacramento, and 426 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 426 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

5

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

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

5 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 10 October at 8:48am local time, starting at 0 acres.

33.737, -116.707lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 2.1 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 28% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Mp 74-50 Moun Fire started on Friday 2 October, 6.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Lion Fire started on Monday 5 October, 7.1 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Gardner Fire started on Friday 2 October, 8.2 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Snow Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 10.8 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. 2026 Training Fire started on Monday 20 April, 12.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Rru/Red Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 12.5 miles south-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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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 10 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 10 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac