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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Tuesday 29 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
15
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 Lewis Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Tulare 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.
15 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 29 September at 2:51pm local time.
36.190, -118.536lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.6 miles from the fire: 67°F, air at 16% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south-east.
Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Stairs Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 12.0 miles west, and has reached 3 acres. Bald Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 12.2 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Durango Fire started on Monday 5 October, 12.7 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Cahoon Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 15.1 miles north-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.
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.