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Ventura County, California

Madera Inc Fire

Burning 2.1 miles east of Moorpark and 4.8 miles north-east of Santa Rosa Valley, since Friday 2 October.

Map of California. The Madera Inc Fire burns 329 miles from Sacramento, and 329 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 329 miles from Sacramento.

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acreage not yet reported

12

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Madera Inc Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 270 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 270 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Madera Inc 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

270hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:10am on Sunday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

4.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Moorpark 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 Santa Rosa Valley is 6.4 miles, None in the last day.

2.6miles

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. Easy Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 2.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground nine times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 23 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 5.4 miles from the fire: 79°F, air at 14% humidity, a 25 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Three days of record on a day-14 fire

The record here begins at 2:52am on 2 Oct and runs to 3:11am on 4 Oct — 48 hours, 8 readings of heat. The fire is on day 14, so the first 11 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.

Animated map of the Madera Inc Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 19 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 3 days of record

  1. Map for Fri 2 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri2 Oct

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:52am to 3:28am
    • Spread 2.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Sat 3 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat3 Oct

    The fiercest day

    • 4 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 4.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:32am to 3:11am
    • Spread 2.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Sun 4 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun4 Octlatest

    Today so far

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 50% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:49am to 3:11am
    • Spread 2.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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. Friday 2 October

    First reported

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 270 hours, and the record still lists it as active.