Awatchfire

Riverside County, California

Locust Fire

Burning 2.9 miles north of Moreno Valley and 6.4 miles south of Redlands, since Thursday 24 September.

Map of California. The Locust Fire burns 398 miles from Sacramento, and 398 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 398 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

21

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Locust Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Riverside 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.

21 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 24 September at 6:24am local time, starting at 0 acres.

33.962, -117.188lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.9 miles from the fire: 81°F, air at 21% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Kalmia Fire started 1230 minutes before this one, 0.9 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Pigeon Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 4.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Paloma Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 7.5 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Reche Canyon Rd Colton_Area Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 7.5 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Mustang Fire started on Friday 2 October, 7.7 miles north-east, and has reached 10 acres. Pico Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 9.3 miles south, and has reached 173 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm 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.

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. Thursday 24 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 24 September

    Revised to 0 acres

    0 ac