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San Bernardino County, California

Mackay Fire

Burning 0.9 miles north-east of Lake Arrowhead and 5.0 miles north-west of Running Springs, since Saturday 5 September.

Map of California. The Mackay Fire burns 382 miles from Sacramento, and 382 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 382 miles from Sacramento.

2

acres burned so far

39

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Mackay Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 acres in San Bernardino 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.

39 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 5 September at 2:26pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

34.263, -117.166lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.3 miles from the fire: 62°F, air at 33% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Bdu/Juniper Fire started on Friday 25 September, 7.1 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Veg/Jn/Lra Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 9.3 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Juniper Fire started on Friday 25 September, 9.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Assist/Bdu/82A Fire started on Sunday 5 April, 10.6 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Silver Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 10.8 miles west, and has reached 1 acres. Vista Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 10.9 miles north, and has reached 1 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin 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. Saturday 5 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 5 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Saturday 5 September

    Grew to 5 acres

    5 ac
  4. Saturday 5 September

    Revised to 2 acres

    2 ac