Awatchfire

Ventura County, California

Easy Fire

Burning 3.0 miles north-west of Simi Valley and 4.6 miles east of Moorpark, since Sunday 4 October.

Map of California. The Easy Fire burns 331 miles from Sacramento, and 331 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 331 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

11

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 2:20am today

The Easy Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 48 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 48 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Easy 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 Where another fire is recorded

48hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:25am on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

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

3.1miles

is how close the heat has come to Simi Valley 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 Moorpark is 4.2 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.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Lost Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 4.1 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Madera Inc Fire started on Friday 2 October, 2.6 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 10 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 6.5 miles from the fire: 76°F, air at 20% humidity, a 26 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Seven days of record on a day-13 fire

The record here begins at 2:49am on 4 Oct and runs to 2:26am on 14 Oct — 240 hours, 17 readings of heat. The fire is on day 13, so the first 6 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.

Animated map of the Easy Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 83 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 7 days of record

  1. Map for Sun 4 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun4 Oct

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:49am to 3:11am
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Mon 5 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon5 Oct

    Holding

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 50% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:32am to 2:32am
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Tue 6 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue6 Oct

    The fiercest day

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 4.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:11am to 3:15am
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Wed 7 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed7 Oct

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 50% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:13am to 2:58am
    • Spread 0.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  5. Map for Thu 8 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu8 Oct

    Holding

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 50% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:37am to 3:15am
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  6. Map for Fri 9 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri9 Oct

    Flaring up

    • 5 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 3.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:20am to 3:15am
    • Spread 0.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  7. Map for Wed 14 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed14 Octlatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 67% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:26am to 2:26am
    • Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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. Sunday 4 October

    First reported

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 48 hours, and the record still lists it as active.