Awatchfire

San Luis Obispo County, California

Hills Fire

Burning 3.0 miles west of Whitley Gardens and 5.2 miles east of El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles), since Friday 18 September.

Map of California. The Hills Fire burns 208 miles from Sacramento, and 208 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 208 miles from Sacramento.

2

acres burned so far

26

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Hills Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 acres in San Luis Obispo 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.

26 days

on record — first written down on Friday 18 September at 1:35pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

35.649, -120.561lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 18.7 miles from the fire: 44°F, air at 47% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Estrella Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 2.8 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Robles Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 7.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. River Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 7.4 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Pomar Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 7.5 miles south-west, 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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. Friday 18 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 18 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Friday 18 September

    Grew to 2 acres

    2 ac
  4. Friday 18 September

    Grew to 2 acres

    2 ac