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Tulare County, California

Maverick Fire

Burning 2.9 miles south-east of Strathmore and 3.8 miles north of Porterville, since Monday 12 October.

Map of California. The Maverick Fire burns 216 miles from Sacramento, and 216 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 216 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

2

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Maverick Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Tulare 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.

2 days

on record — first written down on Monday 12 October at 3:37pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

36.118, -119.025lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.7 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 25% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the west.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Buck Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 5.7 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Kings Fire started on Monday 21 September, 6.1 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Eagle Fire started on Monday 21 September, 8.2 miles east, and has reached 2 acres. Mustang Dr Springville 3 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 10.2 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Swan Fire started on Monday 31 August, 12.7 miles north, 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. Monday 12 October

    First reported

  2. Monday 12 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac