Burning 12.5 miles north-west of Lake Hughes and 15.8 miles east of Lebec, since Tuesday 15 September.
The fire sits 305 miles from Sacramento.
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acreage not yet reported
30
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 2:20am today
The Hanger Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 731 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 731 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
731hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:05pm on Tuesday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
12.4miles
is how close the heat has come to Lake Hughes 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 Lebec is 15.5 miles, None in the last day.
0.3miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Cutoff Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 2.1 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-338011 Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 2.7 miles 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.
One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Ridge Fire 11.3 miles west at 1,134 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 10 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 13.5 miles from the fire: 68°F, air at 24% humidity, a 44 mph wind out of the north-east.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-32 fire
The record here begins at 3:05pm on 15 Sep and runs to 3:05pm on 15 Sep — 0 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 32, so the first 31 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
Tue 3:00pmTue 3:00pm
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
Tue15 Seplatest
First readings
3 heat readings
Heat from 3:05pm to 3:05pm
Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
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.
Tuesday 15 September
First reported
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 731 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
