Awatchfire

Fresno County, California

Madsen Fire

Burning 8.0 miles east of Clovis and 8.0 miles north of Centerville, since Sunday 4 October.

Map of California. The Madsen Fire burns 159 miles from Sacramento, and 159 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 159 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

10

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Madsen Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Fresno 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.

10 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 4 October at 11:20pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.847, -119.539lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.3 miles from the fire: 78°F, air at 20% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Mill Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 7.6 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Sherri Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 9.7 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Big Fire started on Friday 9 October, 10.7 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Frank Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 11.2 miles south-east, and has reached 13 acres. Thorne Fire started on Friday 11 September, 11.7 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Flemming Ranch Access Friant Fire started 179 minutes before this one, 12.2 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm 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. Sunday 4 October

    First reported

  2. Sunday 4 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac