Awatchfire

Calaveras County, California

House Fire

Burning 1.6 miles north-east of Glencoe and 2.5 miles south of West Point, since Monday 28 September.

Map of California. The House Fire burns 51 miles from Sacramento, and 51 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 51 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

16

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The House Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Calaveras 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 Monday 28 September at 2:21pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.373, -120.559lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.2 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 30% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-east.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Baker Fire started on Friday 11 September, 6.6 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Victory Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 9.3 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Dutch Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 9.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Avenue Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 10.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Oro Fire started on Friday 4 September, 13.4 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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. Monday 28 September

    First reported

  2. Monday 28 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac