Awatchfire

Mariposa County, California

Main Fire

Burning 0.2 miles south of Coulterville and 4.8 miles south-west of Greeley Hill, since Sunday 30 August.

Map of California. The Main Fire burns 91 miles from Sacramento, and 91 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 91 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

45

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Main Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Mariposa 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.

45 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 30 August at 3:39pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.710, -120.197lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 18.3 miles from the fire: 73°F, air at 22% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Ladera Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 7.5 miles west, and has reached 2 acres. Alamo Fire started 82 minutes before this one, 9.3 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Otter Fire started on Friday 9 October, 10.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Leyenda Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 13.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Sherlock Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 14.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Lugo Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 15.0 miles 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was moderate 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 30 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 30 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac