Awatchfire

Kern County, California

Gill Fire

Burning 3.9 miles south-east of Pine Mountain Club and 6.2 miles west of Lake of the Woods, since Friday 9 October.

Map of California. The Gill Fire burns 290 miles from Sacramento, and 290 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 290 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

6

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Gill Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Kern 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 days

on record — first written down on Friday 9 October at 12:00am local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.816, -119.106lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.3 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 23% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Adams Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 4.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Trail Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 8.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Carlos Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 9.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Buzzard Fire started on Wednesday 5 August, 11.9 miles north-east, and has reached 902 acres with 55 people assigned. Hanger Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 12.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Grapevine Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 12.9 miles north-east, 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 moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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. Friday 9 October

    First reported

  2. Friday 9 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac