Groundhog Fire

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Groundhog Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Tuolumne 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.

Conditions measured 8.8 miles from the fire: 43°F, air at 37% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Bear Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 1.3 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Paw Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 1.4 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Lake Fire started on Friday 2 October, 1.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Chain Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 1.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Piute Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 2.3 miles east, and has reached 52 acres. Deer Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 4.7 miles east, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 281 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.