Burning 1.7 miles east of Lake Mathews and 3.1 miles west of Mead Valley, since Friday 18 September.
The fire sits 400 miles from Sacramento.
30
acres burned so far
26
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Gustin Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 636 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 636 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
636hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 9:10pm on Friday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
1.6miles
is how close the heat has come to Lake Mathews 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 Mead Valley is 3.3 miles, None in the last day.
0.2miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Ten other fires are burning inside the same view. Aloha Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 4.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Carousel Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 2.3 miles south-east, and has reached 11 acres. Fox Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 2.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Harford Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 0.8 miles south, and has reached 54 acres. Kelly Ln / Alexander St Fire started 57 minutes after this one, 1.9 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Kramer Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 1.1 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Mtz/Rru/Wood Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 1.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rru/Harford Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 0.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Wood Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 1.1 miles south-east, and has reached 76 acres. Wood - Leave Open Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 1.1 miles south-east, and has reached 77 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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 4.1 miles from the fire: 76°F, air at 24% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-28 fire
The record here begins at 9:08pm on 18 Sep and runs to 9:08pm on 18 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 28, so the first 27 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
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 9:00pmFri 9:00pm
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
Fri18 Seplatest
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 9:08pm to 9:08pm
Spread 0.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the night
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.
Friday 18 September
First reported
Friday 18 September
30 acres on record
30 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 30 now. Nothing has looked at it for 636 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
