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San Diego County, California

Mccormick Fire

Burning 4.7 miles north-east of Valley Center and 9.4 miles south-east of Pala, since Friday 2 October.

Map of California. The Mccormick Fire burns 445 miles from Sacramento, and 445 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 445 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

13

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Mccormick Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in San Diego 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.

13 days

on record — first written down on Friday 2 October at 2:46am local time, starting at 0 acres.

33.271, -116.948lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.0 miles from the fire: 78°F, air at 29% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Frycreek Fire started on Monday 7 September, 6.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mission 5 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 9.4 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Bachelor Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 9.5 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Jesmond Fire started on Friday 4 September, 11.3 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Monserate 2 Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 13.8 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Happy Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 14.5 miles north-east, 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 eight times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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 2 October

    First reported

  2. Friday 2 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac