Awatchfire

San Bernardino County, California

Helen Fire

Burning 5.0 miles north-west of Muscoy and 6.2 miles south-east of Lytle Creek, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of California. The Helen Fire burns 376 miles from Sacramento, and 376 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 376 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Helen Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in San Bernardino 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.

50 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 10:24am local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.206, -117.410lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.5 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 37% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Greenwood Fire started on Friday 28 August, 2.7 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Blue Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 4.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Darby Fire started on Monday 24 August, 5.5 miles south-east, and has reached 3 acres. Silver Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 6.3 miles north-east, and has reached 1 acres. Veg/Jn/Lra Fire started 63 minutes after this one, 8.1 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Bald Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 9.8 miles north, 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 three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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. Tuesday 25 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac