Awatchfire

Kern County, California

Junction Fire

Burning 2.0 miles west of Goodmanville and 2.2 miles north of La Cresta, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of California. The Junction Fire burns 257 miles from Sacramento, and 257 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 257 miles from Sacramento.

acreage not yet reported

6

days burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The Junction 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.

6 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 22 August at 5:28pm local time.

35.428, -118.980lat, 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.