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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Monday 31 August
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
44
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Devon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Santa Barbara 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.
44 days
on record — first written down on Monday 31 August at 1:24pm local time.
34.842, -120.525lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 6.2 miles from the fire: 69°F, air at 17% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the east.
Another fire is burning inside the same view. Clark Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 7.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground eight times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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.