Awatchfire

San Bernardino County, California

Custer Fire

Burning 4.6 miles west of Lucerne Valley and 14.2 miles north of Big Bear Lake, since Saturday 26 September.

Map of California. The Custer Fire burns 379 miles from Sacramento, and 379 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 379 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

18

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Custer Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in San Bernardino 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.

18 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 26 September at 2:32pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.435, -116.983lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.2 miles from the fire: 51°F, air at 42% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Mtz/Bdc/83A Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 1.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Orchard Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 4.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Hitchcock Fire started on Friday 25 September, 7.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Bdu/82A Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 8.6 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Rabbit Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 9.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Cbt/82A Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 9.7 miles north-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 two 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 26 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 26 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac