Kern County, California
Burning 2.3 miles north-west of Ridgecrest and 3.2 miles north of Ridgecrest Heights, since Saturday 23 May.
0
acres burned so far
144
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Mtz/Veg/44A 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.
144 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 23 May at 1:15pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
35.648, -117.698lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 11.1 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/Krn/Felspar Fire started on Monday 11 May, 4.4 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. College Fire started on Saturday 4 July, 6.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Mtz/Krn/44A Fire started on Wednesday 29 April, 9.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Short Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 10.4 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Neal Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 10.6 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Neal Ranch Fire started on Sunday 12 April, 10.7 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.
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.
Saturday 23 May
First reported
Monday 5 October
0 acres on record
0 ac