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 21 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
4
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 5:10pm today
The Monte 4 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.
4 hours
on record — first written down on Wednesday 21 October at 1:31pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
32.861, -116.899lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 9.4 miles from the fire: 80°F, air at 48% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the south-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Forester Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 3.5 miles south, and has reached 1 acres. Wildcat 2 Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 3.7 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Harbison Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 4.7 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Fa/Drd Fire started on Friday 11 September, 6.9 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Mutual Aid/Tnr Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 8.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Nitos Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 9.7 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 nine times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 28 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.