Awatchfire

Riverside County, California

Dagger Fire

Burning 6.8 miles south-east of Anza and 12.4 miles east of Lake Riverside, since Monday 5 October.

Map of California. The Dagger Fire burns 443 miles from Sacramento, and 443 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 443 miles from Sacramento.

3

acres burned so far

9

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Dagger Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 3 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.

9 days

on record — first written down on Monday 5 October at 11:38am local time, starting at 0 acres.

33.507, -116.597lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.6 miles from the fire: 66°F, air at 25% humidity, a 13 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Coyote Canyon Rd Anza Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 0.9 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Gardner Fire started on Friday 2 October, 9.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Lion Fire started 150 minutes before this one, 11.1 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Rru/Highway Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 12.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rru/Beaver Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 13.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Beaver Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 13.5 miles 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. Monday 5 October

    First reported

  2. Monday 5 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Monday 5 October

    Grew to 3 acres

    3 ac