Awatchfire

Riverside County, California

Harford Fire

Burning 1.8 miles south-east of Lake Mathews and 3.5 miles south-west of Mead Valley, since Sunday 4 October.

Map of California. The Harford Fire burns 401 miles from Sacramento, and 401 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 401 miles from Sacramento.

54

acres burned so far

10

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Harford Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 54 acres in Riverside 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.

10 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 4 October at 1:52pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

33.812, -117.341lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.0 miles from the fire: 76°F, air at 24% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Rru/Harford Fire started 8 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Gustin Fire started on Friday 18 September, 0.8 miles north, and has reached 30 acres. Wood Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 0.9 miles east, and has reached 76 acres. Wood - Leave Open Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 0.9 miles east, and has reached 77 acres. Kramer Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 1.6 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Mtz/Rru/Wood Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 1.8 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 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.

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. Sunday 4 October

    First reported

  2. Sunday 4 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Sunday 4 October

    Grew to 5 acres

    5 ac

  4. Sunday 4 October

    Grew to 30 acres

    30 ac

  5. Sunday 4 October

    Grew to 35 acres

    35 ac

  6. Sunday 4 October

    Grew to 54 acres

    54 ac