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.
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Wednesday 23 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
21
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Mission 5 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record 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.
21 days
on record — first written down on Wednesday 23 September at 11:47am local time, starting at 0 acres.
33.364, -117.066lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 2.3 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. Sdu/Rainbow Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 6.5 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Monserate 2 Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 7.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Arnaz Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 9.1 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Mccormick Fire started on Friday 2 October, 9.4 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mission Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 10.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Tanya Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 10.1 miles west, 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 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.