Awatchfire

Merced County, California

Fields Fire

Burning 2.8 miles north-west of Snelling and 7.2 miles south of La Grange, since Tuesday 20 October.

Map of California. The Fields Fire burns 89 miles from Sacramento, and 89 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 89 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

1

hour burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 3:08pm today

The Fields Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 24 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 24 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Fields 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

24hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:50pm on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

3.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Snelling 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 La Grange is 7.0 miles, None in the last day.

1.0miles

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. Falls Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 4.5 miles south-east, and has reached 2 acres. Olsen Fire started 1406 minutes before this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached 15 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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 19.2 miles from the fire: 87°F, air at 16% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 2:50pm on 19 Oct and runs to 2:50pm on 19 Oct — 0 hours, 3 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Fields 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

Mon 2:00pmMon 2:00pm

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 Mon 19 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon19 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:50pm to 2:50pm
    • Spread 1.0 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. Tuesday 20 October

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 20 October

    0 acres on record

    0 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 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 24 hours, and the record still lists it as active.