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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Sunday 3 May
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
170
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 4:06pm today
The Kirkwood Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Mono 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.
170 days
on record — first written down on Sunday 3 May at 2:28pm local time.
38.127, -118.957lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 13.0 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 27% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.
Another fire is burning inside the same view. Panum Fire started on Monday 21 September, 14.3 miles south, and has reached 1 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.
No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.
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.