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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Wednesday 2 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
42
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 Knight 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 days
on record — first written down on Wednesday 2 September at 5:55pm local time.
35.303, -118.780lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.1 miles from the fire: 69°F, air at 14% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north.
Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Grove Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 13.0 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Junction Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 14.2 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Broom Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 14.4 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Sister Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 14.5 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Golf Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 14.8 miles north-east, 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 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.