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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Monday 12 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
3
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 Howard Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Merced 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.
3 days
on record — first written down on Monday 12 October at 7:53am local time, starting at 0 acres.
37.283, -120.797lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.0 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 53% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south-west.
Another fire is burning inside the same view. Lb4 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 8.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is 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 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.