Burning 3.4 miles north-west of Auberry and 8.4 miles south of North Fork, since Tuesday 13 October.
The fire sits 147 miles from Sacramento.
3
acres burned so far
2
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 2:20am today
The Horse Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 61 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 61 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
61hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:20pm on Tuesday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
3.1miles
is how close the heat has come to Auberry at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to North Fork is 8.5 miles, None in the last day.
0.4miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Auberry Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 4.0 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Berry Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 3.4 miles south-east, and has reached 2 acres. Powerhouse Rd Auberry Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Qual Fire started on Monday 24 August, 4.8 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.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 7.7 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 52% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the east.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-4 fire
The record here begins at 1:21pm on 13 Oct and runs to 1:21pm on 13 Oct — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 4, so the first 3 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 7 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
Tue 1:00pmTue 1:00pm
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
Tue13 Octlatest
First readings
2 heat readings
Heat from 1:21pm to 1:21pm
Spread 0.4 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.
Tuesday 13 October
First reported
Tuesday 13 October
Revised to 3 acres
3 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 3 now. Nothing has looked at it for 61 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
