Awatchfire

Mono County, California

Headwaters Fire

Burning 5.0 miles south-east of June Lake and 6.8 miles north-west of Mammoth Lakes, since Friday 4 September.

Map of California. The Headwaters Fire burns 144 miles from Sacramento, and 144 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 144 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

40

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Headwaters Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Mono 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.

40 days

on record — first written down on Friday 4 September at 4:23pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

37.708, -119.052lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.7 miles from the fire: 25°F, air at 62% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-west.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. June Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 6.9 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Pilot Fire started on Friday 11 September, 11.9 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Convict Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 13.7 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Panum Fire started on Monday 21 September, 15.0 miles north, and has reached 1 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Friday 4 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 4 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac