Awatchfire

Fresno County, California

Dump Fire

Burning 3.3 miles south of Auberry and 8.9 miles south-west of Shaver Lake, since Thursday 8 October.

Map of California. The Dump Fire burns 151 miles from Sacramento, and 151 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 151 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

7

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 2:20am today

The Dump Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Fresno 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.

7 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 8 October at 12:32pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.045, -119.473lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.6 miles from the fire: 67°F, air at 16% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Qual Fire started on Monday 24 August, 1.7 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Berry Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 2.2 miles north, and has reached 2 acres. Auberry Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 3.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Horse Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 5.1 miles north, and has reached 3 acres. Powerhouse Rd Auberry Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 5.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Roc Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 6.1 miles east, 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 202 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. Thursday 8 October

    First reported

  2. Thursday 8 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac