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Kern County, California

Mtz/Krn/Felspar Fire

Burning 0.6 miles south-west of China Lake Acres and 3.0 miles south-east of Inyokern, since Monday 11 May.

Map of California. The Mtz/Krn/Felspar Fire burns 287 miles from Sacramento, and 287 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 287 miles from Sacramento.

0

acres burned so far

156

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Mtz/Krn/Felspar 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.

156 days

on record — first written down on Monday 11 May at 1:33pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

35.633, -117.773lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.4 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 15% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Mtz/Veg/44A Fire started on Saturday 23 May, 4.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Krn/44A Fire started on Wednesday 29 April, 5.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Short Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 7.3 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. College Fire started on Saturday 4 July, 7.6 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Neal Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 7.7 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Neal Ranch Fire started on Sunday 12 April, 8.1 miles north-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.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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 11 May

    First reported

  2. Monday 5 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac