Awatchfire

Kern County, California

Mtz/Kern/47A Fire

Burning 18.3 miles west of Randsburg and 18.6 miles north of California City, since Thursday 3 September.

Map of California. The Mtz/Kern/47A Fire burns 291 miles from Sacramento, and 291 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 291 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

41

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Mtz/Kern/47A Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Kern 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.

41 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 3 September at 4:41pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

35.399, -117.984lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 12.9 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 19% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the south.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Dove Fire started 3 minutes before this one, 2.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Iron Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 8.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Jawbone 1 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 8.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Fiddler Fire started on Thursday 30 July, 11.0 miles 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 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. Thursday 3 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 3 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac