Awatchfire

San Bernardino County, California

Greenwood Fire

Burning 4.5 miles east of Lytle Creek and 7.5 miles north-west of Muscoy, since Friday 28 August.

Map of California. The Greenwood Fire burns 374 miles from Sacramento, and 374 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 374 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

5

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 7:09pm today

The Greenwood Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 5 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Greenwood 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

5hours

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

2readings

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

3.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Lytle Creek at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 3.2 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Muscoy is 8.8 miles, 8.8 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

1.4miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Helen Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 2.7 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 51 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 8.4 miles from the fire: 86°F, air at 32% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 2:23pm on 28 Aug and runs to 2:23pm on 28 Aug — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Greenwood 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

Fri 2:00pmFri 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 Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:23pm to 2:23pm
    • Spread 1.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.