Awatchfire

Inyo County, California

Division Fire

Burning 8.2 miles north of Independence and 15.5 miles south of Big Pine, since Friday 4 September.

Map of California. The Division Fire burns 209 miles from Sacramento, and 209 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 209 miles from Sacramento.

6

acres burned so far

40

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Division Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 980 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 980 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Division Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

980hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 12:55pm on Friday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

8.6miles

is how close the heat has come to Independence at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Big Pine is 14.8 miles, None in the last day.

0.7miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 3.7 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 25% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-42 fire

The record here begins at 12:55pm on 4 Sep and runs to 12:55pm on 4 Sep — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 42, so the first 41 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Division Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Fri 12:00pmFri 12:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Fri 4 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri4 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 12:55pm to 12:55pm
    • Spread 0.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Friday 4 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 4 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Friday 4 September

    Grew to 2 acres

    2 ac

  4. Friday 4 September

    Grew to 5 acres

    5 ac

  5. Friday 4 September

    Grew to 6 acres

    6 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 6 now. Nothing has looked at it for 980 hours, and the record still lists it as active.