Awatchfire

San Diego County, California

Henderson Fire

Burning 5.2 miles north-west of Camp Pendleton Mainside and 7.8 miles north of Camp Pendleton South, since Thursday 15 October.

Map of California. The Henderson Fire burns 426 miles from Sacramento, and 426 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 426 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

6

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 7:50pm today

The Henderson Fire is still building. The last heat was seen 4 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Henderson Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

4hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:10pm on Thursday, local time.

17% more

energy in the last 1.1 hours of the record than in the 1.1 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

5.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Camp Pendleton Mainside at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 5.2 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Camp Pendleton South is 6.7 miles, 6.7 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

3.0miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Hawk Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 1.2 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground seven times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 34 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

One place is burning

1.0 miles south-west of the recorded point

21 readings of heat in the last day — all of the heat seen in that time.

Conditions measured 2.5 miles from the fire: 84°F, air at 17% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 2:04pm on 15 Oct and runs to 4:12pm on 15 Oct — 2 hours, 21 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Henderson Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 9 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

Thu 2:00pmThu 4:00pm

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

  1. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 21 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:04pm to 4:12pm
    • Spread 3.0 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.

  1. Thursday 15 October

    First reported

  2. Thursday 15 October

    0 acres on record

    0 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 0 now. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.