Awatchfire

Tulare County, California

Land Fire

Burning 1.2 miles north-west of Hartland and 4.6 miles south of Wilsonia, since Saturday 10 October.

Map of California. The Land Fire burns 189 miles from Sacramento, and 189 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 189 miles from Sacramento.

20

acres burned so far

5

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 2:20am today

The Land Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 130 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 130 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Land Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

130hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:20pm on Saturday, local time.

86% less

energy in the last 0.7 hours of the record than in the 0.7 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

1.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Hartland at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Wilsonia is 4.4 miles, None in the last day.

0.4miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Dun Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 3.1 miles west, and has reached 0 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.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 3.4 miles from the fire: 68°F, air at 16% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-7 fire

The record here begins at 3:01pm on 10 Oct and runs to 4:20pm on 10 Oct — 1 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 7, so the first 6 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Land Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Sat 3:00pmSat 4:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Sat 10 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat10 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings
    • Heat from 3:01pm to 4:20pm
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Saturday 10 October

    First reported at 20 acres

    20 ac

  2. Saturday 10 October

    20 acres on record

    20 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 20 acres when it was first written down to 20 now. Nothing has looked at it for 130 hours, and the record still lists it as active.