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.
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Saturday 22 August
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
53
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Hill Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Ventura 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.
53 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 22 August at 12:34pm local time.
34.067, -118.966lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 2.3 miles from the fire: 67°F, air at 44% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Vnc Hill Fire started 16 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Vnco Vedder Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 4.2 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Lac-322773 Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 4.3 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Arroyo Fire started 419 minutes after this one, 9.2 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Saddle Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 9.4 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Dume Fire started 473 minutes after this one, 9.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 nine times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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.