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Kern County, California

Iron Fire

Burning 17.3 miles north-west of California City and 21.1 miles north of Mojave, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of California. The Iron Fire burns 292 miles from Sacramento, and 292 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 292 miles from Sacramento.

acreage not yet reported

1

hour burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 11:38am today

The Iron Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Kern 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.

42 minutes

on record — first written down on Saturday 29 August at 10:56am local time.

35.312, -118.100lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.