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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Wednesday 21 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
6
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 2:40am today
The Etiwanda Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Riverside 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.
6 hours
on record — first written down on Wednesday 21 October at 8:32pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.955, -117.515lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 13.2 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 87% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Mann Fire started on Friday 16 October, 1.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Holmes Fire started on Friday 9 October, 1.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Marlatt Fire started on Saturday 17 October, 1.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Ridge Fire started on Saturday 17 October, 1.4 miles north, and has reached 1 acres. Citrus Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 6.8 miles south-east, and has reached 15 acres. Eagle Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 6.8 miles south, 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 41 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.