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Calaveras County, California

Matson Fire

Burning 0.9 miles south-east of West Point and 2.8 miles north-west of Wilseyville, since Friday 16 October.

Map of California. The Matson Fire burns 52 miles from Sacramento, and 52 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 52 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

1

hour burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 1:26am today

The Matson Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Calaveras 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.

1 hour

on record — first written down on Friday 16 October at 12:04am local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.400, -120.529lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.7 miles from the fire: 75°F, air at 15% humidity, a 13 mph wind out of the east.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. House Fire started on Monday 28 September, 2.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Dutch Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 8.1 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Baker Fire started on Friday 11 September, 8.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Victory Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 11.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Avenue Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 11.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 201 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. Friday 16 October

    First reported

  2. Friday 16 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac