Awatchfire

Madera County, California

Hidden Fire

Burning 7.5 miles south-west of Yosemite Lakes and 8.9 miles north of Bonadelle Ranchos, since Tuesday 29 September.

Map of California. The Hidden Fire burns 136 miles from Sacramento, and 136 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 136 miles from Sacramento.

2

acres burned so far

16

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 2:20am today

The Hidden Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 acres in Madera 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.

16 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 29 September at 5:53pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.088, -119.832lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 15.4 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 52% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Rock Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 7.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Vineyard Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 8.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Dalton Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 8.4 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Daulton Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 8.4 miles west, and has reached 20 acres. Flemming Ranch Access Friant Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 11.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Big Fire started on Friday 9 October, 13.3 miles south-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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 202 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 29 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 29 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Tuesday 29 September

    Grew to 2 acres

    2 ac