Awatchfire

Kern County, California

Muse Fire

Burning 4.4 miles north-west of Keene and 7.3 miles north of Bear Valley Springs, since Thursday 29 October.

Map of California. The Muse Fire burns 275 miles from Sacramento, and 275 miles from the state capital, Sacramento.
The fire sits 275 miles from Sacramento.

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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 picture as of 9:44am today

The Muse Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 7 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Muse Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

7hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45am on Thursday, local time.

1readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

4.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Keene at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 4.5 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Bear Valley Springs is 7.2 miles, 7.2 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

0.2miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground seven times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 26 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 3.6 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 44% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 2:43am on 29 Oct and runs to 2:43am on 29 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Muse Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Thu 2:00amThu 2:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Thu 29 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu29 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:43am to 2:43am
    • Spread 0.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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 29 October

    First reported

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.