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Tuolumne County, California

Kennedy Fire

Burning 16.3 miles north-east of Strawberry and 19.6 miles north-east of Cold Springs, since Friday 11 September.

Map of California. The Kennedy Fire burns 95 miles from Sacramento, and 95 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 95 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

33

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Kennedy Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Tuolumne 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.

33 days

on record — first written down on Friday 11 September at 5:09pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.308, -119.744lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.5 miles from the fire: 45°F, air at 40% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Niagara Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 6.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Pinto Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 6.7 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Woods Fire started on Saturday 8 August, 8.8 miles north-west, and has reached 65 acres with 55 people assigned. Buck Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 10.1 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Deer Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 10.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Mill Fire started on Monday 24 August, 10.7 miles 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 moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 281 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. Friday 11 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 11 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac