Awatchfire

San Diego County, California

Diamond Fire

Burning 3.5 miles east of Jamul and 6.3 miles south-east of Crest, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of California. The Diamond Fire burns 481 miles from Sacramento, and 481 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 481 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

49

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Diamond Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in San Diego 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.

49 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 26 August at 4:24pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

32.723, -116.811lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.5 miles from the fire: 75°F, air at 21% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Mutual Aid/Tnr Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 5.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Harbison Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 6.5 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Fog Fire started 189 minutes before this one, 6.9 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Forester Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 8.2 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Fa/Drd Fire started on Friday 11 September, 8.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Vf/Drd Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 11.7 miles north-east, and has reached 1 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 ten times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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. Wednesday 26 August

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 26 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac