Awatchfire

Inyo County, California

Fort Fire

Burning 1.8 miles north-west of Independence and 20.7 miles north-west of Lone Pine, since Monday 28 September.

Map of California. The Fort Fire burns 213 miles from Sacramento, and 213 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 213 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

17

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 2:20am today

The Fort Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Inyo 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.

17 days

on record — first written down on Monday 28 September at 2:58pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.848, -118.231lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 1.9 miles from the fire: 65°F, air at 17% humidity, a 14 mph wind out of the north-west.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Q6 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 5.3 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Division Fire started on Friday 4 September, 6.8 miles north, and has reached 6 acres. Perkins Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 9.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Teapot Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 11.2 miles west, 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.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Monday 28 September

    First reported

  2. Monday 28 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac