Burning 2.0 miles south-west of Mead Valley and 3.4 miles north-west of Good Hope, since Tuesday 25 August.
The fire sits 402 miles from Sacramento.
0
acres burned so far
50
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Mtz/Rru/Wood Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 956 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 956 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
956hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:30pm on Saturday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
2.1miles
is how close the heat has come to Mead Valley at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Good Hope is 2.7 miles, None in the last day.
0.8miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
11 other fires are burning inside the same view. Aloha Fire started on Wednesday 30 September, 3.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Carousel Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 0.5 miles south-east, and has reached 11 acres. Fox Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 0.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Gustin Fire started on Friday 18 September, 1.8 miles north-west, and has reached 30 acres. Harford Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 1.8 miles west, and has reached 54 acres. Kelly Ln / Alexander St Fire started on Friday 18 September, 1.0 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Kramer Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.9 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Lopez St Good Fire started on Friday 28 August, 3.5 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rru/Harford Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 1.8 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Wood Fire started 29 minutes before this one, 0.9 miles west, and has reached 76 acres. Wood - Leave Open Fire started 29 minutes before this one, 0.9 miles west, and has reached 77 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 five 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.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 4.5 miles from the fire: 81°F, air at 21% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the north.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-52 fire
The record here begins at 1:19pm on 25 Aug and runs to 1:32pm on 5 Sep — 264 hours, 19 readings of heat. The fire is on day 52, so the first 50 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen.
The whole record, 91 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 2 days of record
Tue25 Aug
First readings
17 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 1:19pm to 2:59pm
Spread 0.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
Sat5 Seplatest
Cooling off
2 heat readings
Energy 98% down on the day before
Heat from 1:12pm to 1:32pm
Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
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.
Tuesday 25 August
First reported
Tuesday 25 August
0 acres on record
0 ac
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 956 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
